The Great Pacific Garbage Patch LESSON

by Dynamic Earth Learning

Price: 500 points or $5 USD

Subjects: science,lifeScience,earthAndSpaceScience,appliedScience,socialstudies,civicsAndGovernment,cultureAndSociety

Grades: 5,6,7

Description: Embedded video lesson on first slide! Then students answer 30 questions. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of floating trash in the Pacific Ocean. The garbage patch is not a solid mass, but a dispersed concentration of plastic particles influenced by ocean currents. The detrimental effects of the garbage patch on marine animals, such as entanglement and ingestion of plastic, are discussed. The lesson also explores potential solutions, including ocean cleanup technologies, beach cleanups, prevention strategies, and policy changes. It emphasizes the importance of collective efforts and human determination in addressing the issue of ocean pollution.