Planet Ark: Schools Recycle Right Challenge and lesson plans
60+ Australian lesson plans on recycling, including ‘Enzymes and Plastic Recycling’ (Stage 3, school Years 5 and 6) and ‘Recycle Reuse’ (Stage 4, Years…
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PBS NewsHour: The Plastic Problem documentary and student-inventor lesson
A 54-minute documentary and a 3–4 lesson plan (grades 9–12) on how student inventors can tackle plastic, with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) codes…
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The Story of Plastic: animated short, feature film and learning guides
An Emmy-winning systems-level documentary for 13–18s, a four-minute animated short for 9+, and screening, research and action guides.
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Ocean Wise: Ocean Plastic Education Kits (grades 3–12)
Bilingual (English and French) educator guides and student workbooks, seven lessons per kit for elementary, middle and high school, 2024 edition.
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Keep Scotland Beautiful: Live Lesson on plastic pollution
Recorded live lessons for Early Years to secondary, with infographics, a sea-turtle game, a comic template and a campaign letter.
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Cool.org: The Majestic Plastic Bag flipped classroom (Years 7–10) and Clean Up Australia unit
A flipped-classroom lesson on the satirical short ‘The Majestic Plastic Bag’ plus an 18-lesson Clean Up Australia unit, all Australian Curriculum (AC) v9 mapped.
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Cool.org: Blue — Plastic Not So Fantastic (Years 5–6)
An Australian Curriculum v9 lesson for Years 5–6 with printables, experiments and video, built around the documentary Blue.
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PBS LearningMedia: The Plastic Problem (NOVA Beyond the Elements) and The Lowdown
Short NOVA and KQED videos with support materials for grades 6–12 on what plastic is and how it took over the world.
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PBS LearningMedia: Investigate the Plastic Problem (Engineering for Good)
A full project-based unit for grades 3–8 in which students engineer a solution to a local plastic problem; video, lesson plan and handouts.
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TeachEngineering: Great Pacific Garbage Patch mapping lesson
A grade 6–8 lesson using mapping and ocean-current data to understand how plastic gathers in gyres (huge, slowly circling ocean currents).