Disposal: Ocean Pollution by Shelby Rini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt Shelby Rini en-us 2018-04-03 20:25:14 UTC 2023-02-18 07:04:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300336 In this TED Talk, Diana Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and how it affects both the marine lives and our lives. She also talks about what we can do to save us from the plastic gyre.]]> 2018-04-03 20:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300336 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300733 This article talks about the pollution in our ocean: where it comes from, where it goes, what we can do to help, etc. It also discusses how ocean pollution affects our marine life and human life.]]> 2018-04-03 20:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300733 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300780 This packet is good for elementary school classrooms. It has multiple pages of information and activities that students can do to help understand water pollution and how we can help prevent it.]]> 2018-04-03 20:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300780 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300849 This article discusses the amount of pollution that enters the ocean and which pollutants are the worst. These pollutants include oil, fertilizers, seas of garbage, sewage disposal, and toxic chemicals.]]> 2018-04-03 20:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248300849 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248301295 This is a video of kids at the beach helping pick up the pollution. This is a good video to show elementary students to show that they can make a difference in ocean pollution.]]> 2018-04-03 20:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248301295 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248301728 This website is perfect for teaching elementary students about ocean pollution. It has many different shocking facts that may ultimately encourage students to reduce the amount of waste in the ocean.]]> 2018-04-03 20:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248301728 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302274 This is a short vocabulary matching game for elementary students. Students are to match the words given with the corresponding pictures given to get a better understanding of important vocabulary when learning about ocean pollution.]]> 2018-04-03 20:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302274 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302282 This article talks about many different solutions to ocean pollution. It includes what we can do (even from our homes), what the government can do, what organizations there are helping the problem, etc. Most importantly though, it lets us know that a little goes a long way.]]> 2018-04-03 20:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302282 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302293 This video explains what a gyre is and its effects on our oceans. It talks about the many different gyres and the garbage patches within them.]]> 2018-04-03 20:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302293 Educate Yourself & Your Students slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302304 This small slide show on National Geographic extends off of the video link to the left- gyres. It talks about some of the largest garbage patches and their impacts on the ocean and life within it.]]> 2018-04-03 20:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248302304 Why is it Important? slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725172 This sustainability topic affects not only our environment and the marine life within it, but human lives as well. Ocean pollution can harm the life within it, which ultimately can harm the seafood we eat. This is a major problem in most places on the coast and even on islands for most of the food eaten is from the ocean. If there are high levels of mercury or other toxic chemicals due to pollution, it can majorly affect the health of many.

I believe this matters to my students because, like I said, it affects their lives too. Most students find ocean life very interesting and I’m sure would be shocked if they found out what was happening to it based on what humans were doing to the ocean. I believe that teaching students about our environment will not only broaden their understanding of our environment, but also what they can do to help it.

Ocean pollution is one of the biggest problems our environment faces. Because of pollution from people on land and natural causes, marine life is dying, and human resources are being compromised. Teaching students the extreme to this problem will encourage future's thinking within students and help them realize that they can help solve this problem. Let's help save our oceans!
]]> 2018-04-05 02:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725172 Overview of Unit slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725222 This is a 5 day lesson plan that'll help students understand what ocean pollution is and how it affects our Earth. The purpose of this unit is to educate students on ocean pollution and how they can apply futures thinking in order to help save our oceans. Students will be able to understand what ocean pollution is and how they can help fix it by learning about the different aspects that go into it.

Topic: Disposal: Ocean Pollution
Day 1: What is ocean pollution?
Day 2: Who and what does ocean pollution affect?
Day 3: What is a gyre?
Day 4: What will happen if the rate of pollution in the ocean stays constant or increases?
Day 5: Sea pollution experiment!

4th Grade GE Science
Concept 1: Changes in Environments
Describe the interactions between human populations, natural hazards, and the environment.
PO 1. Describe how natural events and human activities have positive and negative impacts on environments (e.g., fire, floods, pollution, dams). 

PO 2. Evaluate the consequences of environmental occurrences that happen either rapidly (e.g., fire, flood, tornado) or over a long period of time (e.g., drought, melting ice caps, the greenhouse effect, erosion). 
]]> 2018-04-05 02:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725222 Day 1: What is ocean pollution? slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725233 For day one, it is important to lay the foundation of what ocean pollution is.

Ocean pollution is the spreading of harmful substances such as oil, plastic, industrial and agricultural waste and chemical particles into the ocean. Oceans take up about 75% of our Earth and are one of Earth's most valuable natural resources. Unfortunately, with all of the waste thrown into it, we aren't able to use our oceans for things that we normally would.

After the students have learned what ocean pollution is, they will create a top-down topic web like the one shown below. The top rectangle will be labeled "Ocean Pollution" and they are to fill out the rest of the boxes based on what is affected by ocean pollution. This will make students go more into depth about what ocean pollution is and it's affects on our environme]]> 2018-04-05 02:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725233 Day 2: Who and what does ocean pollution affect? slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725239 For day two, it is important for students to understand how ocean pollution affects the life within it, and humans as well.

Over the last few decades, surplus human activities have severely affected the marine life on the Earth's oceans. Ocean pollution, also known as marine pollution, is the spreading of harmful substances such as oil, plastic, industrial and agricultural waste and chemical particles into the ocean.

For day two, students will create a food chain diagram. Starting with the polluted water, students will discover how the pollution affects the life within it, which ultimately affects us. This will show students that ocean pollution doesn't just affect the life within the ocean, but our lives as well.]]> 2018-04-05 02:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725239 Day 3: What is a gyre? slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725245 For day three, it is important for students to learn what a gyre is and how they form.

Ocean gyres are large system of circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns and forces created by Earth’s rotation. The world's five major ocean gyres are: North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian, North Pacific, and South Pacific.

For day three, students will be learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. First, they will watch this documentary for engagement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw). Then, students will watch the videos listed below and will be evaluated based on their Cornell notes they take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgAGmkJaQXI#action=share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgAGmkJaQXI#action=share]]> 2018-04-05 02:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725245 Day 4: What will happen if the rate of pollution in the ocean stays constant, decreases, or increases? slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725254 For day four, it is important for students to understand that ocean pollution is a very serious issue and can continue to head in a bad direction if we don't do something.

The majority of the garbage that enters the ocean each year is plastic—and here to stay. That’s because unlike other trash, the single-use grocery bags, water bottles, drinking straws, and yogurt containers, among eight million metric tons of the plastic items we toss (instead of recycle), won’t biodegrade. Instead, they can persist in the environment for a millennium, polluting our beaches, entangling marine life, and getting ingested by fish and seabirds.

For day four, students will be making a timeline. Students will research statistics about the amount of pollution there is in the ocean using a computer. They then will notice a trend between the amount of waste in the ocean compared to the year. From here, students will create a timeline from the years of 2010-2020 to predict what will happen to the ocean pollution within the next couple years if pollution were to stay consistent, increase, or decrease. This will show students the importance of keeping our oceans clean]]> 2018-04-05 02:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725254 Day 5: Sea Pollution Experiment! slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725265 Day five is important because students will get to have a hands on experience that will show them just how bad ocean pollution is for wildlife and human life.

Students will get a mason jar filled with clear water, shells and toy fish with strings tied to them so that they can easily maneuver the fish without sticking their hands in the jar. Next, we will add rubbish (or black food coloring) to represent oil and sewage. How different does our ocean look after pollution has been added? Next, we would add garbage to the jar. Students will be asked again, “How different does our ocean look after garbage has been added?” Students will then be asked to move their fish around and notice how hard it is for their fish to move. This will show the students that ocean pollution greatly affects the water and the life within it.]]> 2018-04-05 02:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/248725265 Fun Facts! slrini https://padlet.com/slrini/3fx9vo9m34kt/wish/252774696 Fact 1: Plastic is the most common element that is found in the ocean. It is harmful for the environment as it does not get break down easily and is often considered as food by marine animals.

Fact 2: The biggest source of pollution in the ocean is directly from land based sources, such as oil, dirt, septic tanks, farms, ranches, motor vehicles, among larger sources. Thousands of tons of waste and trash are dumped into the ocean on a daily basis.

Fact 3: Over one million seabirds are killed by ocean pollution each year. Three hundred thousand dolphins and porpoises die each year as a result of becoming entangled in discarded fishing nets, among other items. One hundred thousand sea mammals are killed in the ocean by pollution each year.

Fact 4: Even though much the trash and waste dumped into the ocean is released hundreds of miles away from land, it still washes up on beaches and coastal areas, and affects everything in between. Every marine animal is affected by man-made chemicals released in the water.

Fact 5: There is an island of garbage twice the size of Texas inside the Pacific Ocean: the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California is the largest oceanic garbage site in the entire world. There, the number of floating plastic pieces outnumbers total marine life six to one in the immediate vicinity.
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