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.
Resources for schools and families
Lesson plans, audits, experiments, conversation cards and vetted external resources by age.
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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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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: 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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TED-Ed: What really happens to the plastic you throw away (Emma Bryce)
The canonical four-minute animation following three bottles to three endings, with a quiz and discussion prompts.
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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).
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TeachEngineering: The Plastisphere (microplastics and wastewater treatment)
A grade 9–12 lesson with three hands-on labs: microbead extraction, a mini wastewater plant and fluorescent plastic tracing.