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Oil Spill! by Paul Mirocha ^ Melvin Berger

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Oil Spill! by Paul Mirocha ^ Melvin Berger

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Summary: This is a book that focuses on one aspect of pollution on our earth, oil spills. The story steps back into history and highlights one of the worst spills in history by the Exxon Valdez oil tanker. The story explains why oil spills happen every year, the effects on our ocean and wildlife, and how they are cleaned up. The book has illustrations that are bold and exuberant to fully grasp the detail and extend of the harmfulness oil spills have on our environment.

Classroom Usage: This book can be used as a read aloud during our pollution unit. First, this book will expose students to oil spills. Students will be exposed to the current and the historical occurrences of oil spills and how they have a negative effect on our environment. Teachers and students can use this story to formulate ideas on how to prevent oil spills and spread awareness.

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Summary: This book is one book within a series. The whole serious follows the character Michael through adventures of recycling. This particular Michael Recycle book highlights Michael as a superhero. His powers help to teach people about recycling. The story illustrated multiple ways to be a superhero and recycle to keep our planet clean. The book shines light on the greatness of those who recycle to help our planet, thus showing that taking care our earth can be done by all people and all superheros'.

Classroom Usage: This book can be used as a read aloud within our Pollution unit. This book shines a light on the great work students and families can do to protect our earth. The book teaches every kid how to be a superhero in their own, how easy it is. Michael, the character demonstrates many ways for students to be an active member in their community by recycling items that are very present in the students everyday life. The book will help encourage recycling, as well as, support critical thinking towards other ways students can recycle in our community. This book shows kids how they can be a real superhero too.

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How To Clean Up An Oil Spill (for kids!) from Kids Science on youtube.com

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How To Clean Up An Oil Spill (for kids!) from Kids Science on youtube.com

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWa8EzP8vuI_hvFWOTryEg
Summary: This video is one from a collection of experiment videos done by children.  The youtube channel Kids Science, offers videos of hands-on experiments modeled by kids to be done by kids. The video How To Clean Up An Oil Spill shows a real-life example of how fish in the water can not survive with oil. This concern and fear portrays the major problem with oil spills, its harm to our wildlife. The children together identify a problem and immediately know they need to make a change. The two children work together to find a solution. They problem solve by using various materials to clean up the oil spill in the water. Through trial and error the students are successful in getting the oil out of the water and saving the fish. This video highlights the devastation of oil spills, taking action, and never giving up. The children in this video model the experiment, however still promote trying different solutions.

Classroom Usage: This video can be used in our Pollution unit to continue to support student understanding of oil spills, a form of pollution. It shows, from a kids perspective, a real life relatable situation where the oil spill can be harmful. The video aside from being a resource to teach about pollution supports the skill of cause and effect. For everything that happens something will come from it. The video also shows perseverance, a skill that needs to be taught, learned, and practiced. The kids in the video never gave up and tried to use various materials to clean up the oil spill till it was all gone. In a classroom, students could be asked to identify the problem and solution. Students can then brainstorm and experiment with different materials not used in the video. This video promotes critical thinking and offers opportunities for continued investigation.

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How To Clean Up An Oil Spill (for kids!)

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, to enjoy a better life from Happy Learning English on youtube.com 

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, to enjoy a better life from Happy Learning English on youtube.com 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8
Summary:  This is an animated video from the perspective of the earth. The earth is sharing the value of reducing, reusing, and recycling. The earth calls on students to help keep our earth beautiful and clean. The video is visually clear representing reduce, reuse, and recyling with RRR. The video in child friendly language outlines what each word means and how you can apply it to real life situations. The video shows photographs of real life pollution, reducing, reusing, and recycling. The video asks questions to promote critcial thinking such as,
"what can you do to reduce?". The video encourage change from all.

Classroom Usage: This animated video can be used during our pollution unit. It is a visual and auditory representation of what reducing, reusing, and recycling mean. The video shows how the RRR's make a change to help our environment better. The video can be used to help students brainstorm new ideas on how they can reduce, reuse, and recycle. It can support background knowledge of a time when the students themselves or saw others reduce, reuse, or recycle. It can help generate ideas on how they as students can make a change in their own life to support our environment.

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The three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle | Happy Learning ♻️ ♻️ ♻️

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https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/pollution/
Summary: The website National Geographic KiDS is a kid friendly resource that allows students to research topics, play games, and apply what they learned into their own life. I specifically chose the kid friendly written article on pollution to support a child's understanding of pollution overall. The article also provides key words that can be further investigated for understanding.

Usage: This website can be used during our pollution unit as a research resource for students. The students can feel free to move around the website to follow their interests and gain a better understanding. The research will in-turn support students development of a PSA when they take social action against pollution.

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A sea otter carefully uses its paws to free itself from a plastic bag that's tangled loosely around its body. This sea otter isn't the only animal to have a dangerous run-in with litter: It's estimated that about half of all marine mammals have eaten or gotten trapped by plastic.

A LITTLE POLLUTION = BIG PROBLEMS

Plastic pollution is different from paper or food waste because it never fully decomposes, or breaks down into pieces that can be reused by nature. Instead, plastic often ends up in water, where it releases toxic chemicals and can be mistaken for food. In a study conducted by the journal Science, scientists estimate that 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, threatening over 700 species of marine animals.

Plastic trash isn't the Earth's only pollution problem. Oil accidentally spilling into the sea, agriculture products like fertilizers and pesticides seeping into the soil, and even excess noise and light can pollute the environment.

For instance, the sounds made by ships mess with whale calls, and bright lights can confuse animals such as birds and newly hatched sea turtles.

CLEANING UP OUR ACT

Once released into the environment, pollution can affect wildlife habitats for years. It's easy to blame factories, but some of the mess comes from everyday human activities. For instance, car exhaust fumes and excess garbage can seriously harm Earth's health.

You can probably clean your room in a couple of hours. (At least we hope you can!) But you can't cram Earth's pollution problem into your closet. We all need to pitch in and clean up the planet. Look at it this way: Just like your room, it's always better to prevent the Earth from getting dirty in the first place. Check out these tips for cutting down on your own personal waste.

Recycle: The process of turning stuff that would otherwise be thrown away as trash into new products

Compost: Decaying material, like leftover food scraps, that adds nutrients to soil and helps plants grow

Decompose: The process of breaking down something into parts that can be reused by nature; for example, fallen leaves decompose to become soil.

Biodegradable: Something usually used by people that decomposes; for example, unlike a plastic spoon, a biodegradable spoon won't stay in the environment for thousands of years-it'll decompose.

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Find out how pollution from plastic, light, oil, and other trash affects Earth.