Lesson plan: The lunchbox investigation (ages 8–11)
A 45-minute lesson that counts a class’s lunchbox plastic, turns it into grams a year, and ends with three evidence-based swaps.
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Lesson plan: What is plastic, and where does it belong? (ages 5–7)
A 45-minute everyday-materials lesson: sort, test and decide what we use once and what we use again and again.
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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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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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Eco-Schools: Litter and Waste theme and Litter Less lesson plans
Global Green Flag programme lesson plans (ages 6–16, in four languages) built around the Seven-Step Eco-Schools method.
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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: 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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Plastic Free Schools: lesson units and accreditation
Eight free Key Stage 2 (KS2) and Key Stage 3 (KS3) lesson units plus a one-year, pupil-led programme to remove three single-use items from…
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Common Seas Education: Ocean Plastics Academy lesson packages
The most complete UK-curriculum plastics package: full lesson packs for ages 5–16 in Science, Geography, design and technology (D&T) and Citizenship, delivered via Encounter…
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Talking Trash and Taking Action
Ocean Conservancy and US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) modules for grades 3–12 on sources, impacts and prevention, with art and science strands…