Marine Debris Prevention

Talking Trash and Taking Action.
Unit 3 of Talking Trash and Taking Action

Students will extend their experience in the cleanup by discussing and analyzing ways to prevent marine debris from entering the environment, including Reduce/Reuse/Recycle strategies, Personal habits; Policy change, etc. Using a 4-corners style activity, students will separate debris materials (from the debris deck) into categories for Reduce/Reuse/Recycle/Other. (Debris deck cards included.)

Talking Trash and Taking Action was developed as a means to educate the next generation about ocean trash and, most importantly, how we all can prevent it. Created through an educational partnership between Ocean Conservancy and the NOAA Marine Debris Program, this flexible curriculum is appropriate for all ages.

Lesson Plans
Marine Debris Prevention (Preventing Ocean Trash)
Education Tags:
Marine Debris Topics:  
• Solutions  
Audience:  
• Grade 3-5  
• Grade 6-8  
• Grade 9-12  
• Informal  
Subject:  
• Language Arts  
• Social Studies  
• Earth Science  
• Physical Science  
• Life Science  
Special Categories:  
• Crafts, Fun & Games  
• Class Discussion  
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas:  
• ETS1: Engineering Design  

For citation purposes, unless otherwise noted, this article was authored by the NOAA Marine Debris Program.

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