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Let Tim and Moby introduce you to Earth’s oceans! After finding out just how much of the planet is covered in water, you’ll learn all about our world ocean. Figure out once and for all what the difference is between seas and ocean — or at least what oceanographers think about it.
Step 1: Review Global Goal 14: Life Below Water
Step 2: Introduce and Explore the Problem – How plastic trash effects marine life
Step 3: Discover Solutions – What is currently being done to address this issue?
Step 4: What will you do? – A Writing Activity
Step 5: Sharing and Debrief
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Ducks Overboard
Ducks Overboard: A True Story of Plastic in our Oceans by Markus Motum
Eco facts come to light as a plastic duck narrates this beautifully illustrated true story of thousands of bath toys that were lost at sea and swept to the four corners of the Pacific.
In this activity, students follow the path of the Friendly Floatees, a shipment of 29,000 rubber ducks that spilled overboard in 1992. First, students predict where the ducks landed. Then they observe the role of the Earth’s rotation in creating ocean currents. Finally, students update their Ocean Plastics Movement Models with real Friendly Floatees data.
In 1992, a cargo ship container tumbled into the North Pacific, dumping 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys that were headed from China to the U.S. Currents took them, and news reports said some may have eventually reached Maine and other shores on the Atlantic.
Great Carrier Reef
Great Carrier Reef by Jessica Stremer; Gordy Wright (Illustrator)
An outstanding STEM picture book documenting the transformation of an aircraft carrier that was gutted and turned into the world's largest artificial reef. What happens when something designed to be unsinkable gets bombed to the bottom of the ocean floor? With careful preparation, new life can take root! This incredible story brings young readers along on the journey of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany-the Mighty O-as it gets stripped down to a steel shell for a new life below the waves. After 25 years of service, launching more aircraft than any other carrier of its time, the ship found a new mission as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. The Mighty O was prepped and reefed by a team of more than 150 scientists, engineers, and technicians. Today, it is home to a flourishing variety of marine animals. Designed to encourage regrowth and protect vulnerable marine life, artificial reefs are a crucial tool in the fight against overfishing, pollution, and warming water temperatures. Extensive back matter reveals more about the Mighty O's history, the diseases eating away at the world's natural reef systems, and the role artificial reefs play under the sea, and budding marine biologists will love poring over the exquisite illustrations. Books for a Better Earth are designed to inspire children to become active, knowledgeable participants in caring for the planet they live on. A Cook Prize Silver Medalist A Crystal Kite Midwest Region Honor Book A Green Earth Book Award Recommended Title A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A Science Friday Best Science Book For Kids An ALA Top 10 Sustainability Themed Children's Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Horn Book Fanfare Book A CCBC Choices Book A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Understand Goal 14: Life Below Water
Kids Take Action Against Ocean Plastic
How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean
Our Planet | Coastal Seas | FULL EPISODE | Netflix
The Ocean Cleanup technology and challenges explained
Can we track ocean plastic pollution from space?
Ocean Confetti, the challenge of micro-plastics
When Your Job Is Saving The Ocean | How She Works
The Mess We Made
Clem and Crab
Clem and Crab by Fiona Lumbers (Illustrator)
Clem is an explorer, a collector, a protector of the seas! Treasure hunting on her beloved beach, she stumbles across Crab, whose claw is stuck in a plastic bag. Crab will be much safer and happier in the city with Clem, but doesn't he belong on the beach? A stunningly illustrated, timely tale of cleaning up our beaches, with the message that every small action helps.
Black Beach
Black Beach by Shaunna Stith & John Stith; Maribel Lechuga (Illustrator)
This true story of the first Earth Day - told through the eyes of a fictional child - will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for their planet. WINNER of the GREEN EARTH BOOK AWARD
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