Pollution & Marine Debris Archives

Oil Spill Cleanup

Students will simulate an oil spill and mimic different methods and materials to try to clean up the pollution in the ocean.

Discover how long it takes for different materials to degrade by putting items (i.e. orange peel, plastic straw) along a timeline.

Students create a watershed model using a plastic shower curtain, a spray bottle and some chairs!

Students are challenged to find and remove a baking soda contaminant from a container filled with damp sand.

Students carry out a beach transect, learning about the prevalence and sources of plastic pollution in the oceans.

This interactive narrative illustrates different sources of pollution, historic and modern, to a body of water.

Students illustrate the effects of the land use in a watershed by simulating development of their own riverfront property.

A tag inspired game that demonstrates how plastics and the chemicals in plastics are biomagnified to reach our dinner plates.

A game of freeze tag that gives an understanding of the interaction of oyster reefs and toxic waste (pollution) in the water.