Intro.

 

Jace:

Hi, My name is Jace and this is Yonah. (point at Yonah)

Yonah: 

Our issue is on marine pollution. We decided that we would collaborate and do a TED talk.

 

What is marine pollution?

Jace: 

Did you know, only 2% of the earth’s ocean is protected and that each year 100,000 sea mammals are killed because of this?Marine pollution is a type of pollution that occurs in the ocean. It is when the water is not fit to be used or lived in. It is basicly things that enter the ocean and do harm.

 

Yonah:

 It is caused by trash, sewage, farm-runoff, oil spills, toxic chemicals, construction site waste, thermal shocks and waste that are from factories. 

 

Why should we care?

 

Jace:

One reason it is a big issue and we should care for it is that the ocean provides us with things and help us keep our world balanced.70% of oxygen comes from marine plants, 97% of the earth’s water supply is contained in the ocean and 30% of carbon dioxide emissions produced by humans are absorbed by the ocean. Oceans provide a sixth of the animal protein people eat. They’re the most promising source of new medicines to combat cancer, pain and bacterial diseases. Living oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce the impact of climate change.

 

Yonah:

The second reason it is a big issue and that we should care for it is because it can affect a lot of things. If the fish eat the plastic or trash it can break the whole food chain. The fish eats the plastic and bigger fish eats the smaller fish, then either we fish it up or bigger fish eat them. Once plastic enters a fish body, it stays in it’s guts. Next, the bigger fish will die because of the plastic. If this keeps happening, then the whole eco-system will not be balanced and the food chain won’t work. Also, sea animals will overpopulate because of the un-balanced food chain and some animals might even go extinct. 

 

Yonah: 

One day I was listening to the song The Ocean by Mike Perry, according to the website Genius.com they said that the song has a warm and nice feeling about the ocean and I want that feeling back!

 

How can we take action?

 

Jace:

According to a survey I sent out recently to year 6’s, 35% of the people who answered my survey said that they would want to help but don’t know how to. So here we are going to tell you how you can help! These things are not very hard to do, I bet you guys can do a least one of these.

 

Yonah: (Jace will elaborate on each point if needed)

To take action you can:

 

Jace:

Any questions? 

For our action we have made a website to raise awareness. Right now, Yonah will be passing the links to the website out to you. 

Thank you for listening! Hope you really think about it!

 

Polluted water 

By Jennifer Stefanow

 

 

 

Key Concept Question #1: What is marine pollution?(form)(What causes it?)
Main Idea(s):(use keywords or phrases for big ideas)  | Thinking:(connections, questions, inferences, new learning, etc) | Resource Used:(Have you already added this to your RefMe Project?)
·     Harmful things enter the ocean·   Plastic, Noises, Oil spills, sewage disposal and chemicals    | Are there any other kinds of marine pollution? I didn’t know that noises are also one kind of marine pollution.                                                       | http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/pollution/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_pollution
·  Graph will be shown below the Mtr grid:   

·    Why these pollutants are harmful.Most-30% SewageLess-5% Litter | Litter only takes up 5% of all the pollutants?! I thought that litter would be the one that takes up the most out of all pollutants. | http://www.blueplanet.nsw.edu.au/cre--marine-pollution/.aspx
·  This graph shows the different debris that the aquatic life are being caught  in

   ·   This bar graph shows the amount of the different trash items that are found in the ocean 

  |                  Marine creatures can get stuck in pl          in paper bags?! I would guess that marine creatures would mistake candy wrappers as food and the chemicals in the cigarettes would do harm to sea creatures who are breathing…?   The most is actually fishing nets, I have never thought of fishing nets at all. But how does the fishing net get stuck in the ocean? Don’t fishermen come back and take their fish to sell? | https://sites.google.com/a/region15.org/marine-pollution/for-the-viewer/maps-and-statistics
It happens when a weird substance and pollutant in liquid or solid form enters the ocean to make it too dirty or not usable.  |   | Polluted water By Jennifer Stefanow
Synthesis:(What is your new understanding from the above?)
Marine pollution occurs when harmful things like plastic, chemicals, oil spills and sewage disposal enter the ocean, when construction sites and other stuff make noises it can also affect The Ocean which I never thought would happen.  

 

 

Key Concept Question #3:What is the impact of marine pollution to us and marine animals? (Causation)
Main Idea(s):(use keywords or phrases for big ideas)  | Thinking:(connections, questions, inferences, new learning, etc) | Resource Used:(Have you already added this to your RefMe Project?)
·     Over one million seabirds are killed by ocean pollution each year. One hundred thousand sea mammals are killed in the ocean by pollution each year.·  Beluga whales have also been affected by farm runoff and the chemicals.     | → I didn’t know it was this much harm, I like marine life and I don’t want them to go extinct.                                          | http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-ocean-pollution-facts.php http://www.bluevoice.org/news_issueseffects.php
·     The heated water that goes into the river after cooling down the machinery, it is hot and it makes the temperature changes. Fish and other creatures can die from the temperature change, thermal shock. Also  ·     | I can believe fishies can die like that it’s so sad :( | Polluted water By Jennifer Stefanow
·     ·      |                   | 
Synthesis:(What is your new understanding from the above?)
Animals get hurt easily and the chemicals affect more than I thought          

 

 

Key Concept Question #4: What can we do to help stop marine pollution?(Responsibility)
Main Idea(s):(use keywords or phrases for big ideas)  | Thinking:(connections, questions, inferences, new learning, etc) | Resource Used:(Have you already added this to your RefMe Project?)
·    10 ways you can save the ocean ·     | Useful, because even people under 8 years old can do them.  A lot of them are about your choice, like the choice of using plastic and the choice of seafood.                                          | http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/take-action/10-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-ocean/
·   |   | Polluted water By Jennifer Stefanow
·   |                   | 
Synthesis:(What is your new understanding from the above?)
We can use all of these ways to save The Ocean and the sea animals life