Ship to Shore- EarthEcho Expeditions: PlasticSeas Virtual Field Trip

Length

45 minutes

Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Adult LearnersPublic Library: Library Patrons

Minimum participants:

1

Maximum participants:

N/A

Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Community Interests, Sciences

Program Delivery Mode

Booking Information

We are excited to bring to you exciting videos, engaging lessons and more from our Expedition: PlasticSeas! These events are the launch of our 2018 EarthEcho Expeditions: PlasticSeas. We traveled to Melbourne, Australia and examined plastic in the ocean, in October of 2018. The resulting engaging videos and STEM design challenges made by teachers for teachers are available for free on our website www.earthecho.org, thanks to our presenting sponsor the Northrop Grumman Foundation.

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Provider's Cancellation Policy

Our Virtual Field Trips and live streams are open to everyone. Each event will focus on specific science standards for middle and/or high school students, but will be enjoyable and informative for a wide range of audiences. We consider a Virtual Field Trip or live stream participant anyone who logs on to view the event. We’d love it if you could watch for the duration and ask questions, but it is not required.

About This Provider

Washington, D.C.
United States

Program Details

Format

1. This program begins with a introduction to EarthEcho and our guest host.
2. We then discuss what is plastic and where does it come from?
3. We view photos of impacts of plastics in the ocean.
4. Participants learn about solutions to plastic use and what they can do.
5. Time is allowed for questions and answers.

Objectives

The participant will:
- understand different categories of plastic there are in the world;
- understand how their actions impact the environment, especially when involving plastic;
- suggest improvement methods to solve the problem of plastic waste for my community and beyond.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

NGSS:
MS-PS1-3 Matter and its Interactions
Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity
Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.*

MS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

MS-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

MS-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.

State Standards

OCEAN LITERACY PRINCIPLES:
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.