Earth Day - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Presentation, Handout, & Assignment
Earth Day - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Presentation, Handout, & Assignment: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also called the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a wide range of trash, plastic, chemical sludge, and debris floating together in a large mass in the Pacific Ocean. Use this shocking information to engage your students on Earth Day and encourage them to consider ways to help prevent this disaster from continuing to grow. With the included presentation, handout, and assignment prompt, there will be no prep required. This makes an excellent Earth Day lesson for an English, science, or social studies class.
Included in This Earth Day Lesson:
➡️ Earth Day Great Pacific Garbage Patch Presentation Slides: Use this 20-slide PowerPoint presentation to teach students about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Earth Day presentation includes information on the following:
- What is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
- What does it look like?
- How did it happen?
- How did it get there?
- Plastic pollutants
- What are the effects?
- What is being done?
- What can I do?
- and more!
The presentation also includes a link to interesting and informative videos for students to watch (YouTube required).
➡️ Earth Day Great Pacific Garbage Patch Student Handout and Assignment Prompt: Share this informative reference handout with all the information from the presentation as well as the prompt for students to create a brochure about the garbage patch with suggestions for how people can prevent the patch from growing.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Earth Day Lesson:
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was one of my favorite lessons. The kids had no idea, and I loved seeing their reaction.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This went perfectly with our study of ocean pollution around Earth Day! My students were shocked by what they learned and were able to have great discussions about how they could make a change.
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