Plastic Pollution Text Set

Videos

• Trash Talk (series of videos by NOAA’s Ocean Today)
• How Much Plastic is the Ocean? (Be Smart by PBS)
• Why the Plastic Pollution Problem Is So Much Worse Than You Think (Be Smart by PBS)
• What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course (Jim Toomey)
• Two Minutes on Oceans w/ Jim Toomey: Marine Debris (Jim Toomey)
• The Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination (TED Ed)
• A Brief History of Plastic (TED Ed)
• Earth’s Ekko—Together We Can Make A World of DIfference (Plastic Oceans International)

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Articles

Scholastic News

• Saving the Sea
• A Sea of Plastic
• Piles of Plastic
• How Plastic Is Trashing the Planet

Scholastic Science News

• An Ocean of Plastic
• Plastic or the Planet?

Time For Kids

• The Problem with Plastics

Science News Explores

• Food-like Smell on Plastic May Lure Seabirds to Eat It 
• Tiny Plastic Big Problem
• Plastic Trash Rides Ocean Currents to the Arctic
• Swirling Seas of Plastic Trash
• Plastics at Sea Creates Raft of Problems
• Plastic Trash Travels Up to Arctic Waters
• Polluting Microplastics Harm Both Animals and Ecosystems
• Help for a World Drowning in Microplastics
• Corals DIne on Microplastics
• Pacific Garbage Patch Might Be 16 Times Larger Than Thought
• Expedition finds South Pacific plastic patch bigger than India
• Polluting microplastics harm both animals and ecosystems

DOGO News

• How the Increasing Plastic Debris In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch MayAlter The Ocean’s Ecosystem
• The Once Pristine Henderson Island Is Now Covered With Plastic Waste
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Home To A Thriving Community Of Coastal Creatures

Newsela

• If You Dropped Plastic in the Ocean, Where Does It End Up?
• Plastics Found In Stomachs of Deepest Sea Creatures
• Evidence Shows Microplastics are Harmful to Zooplankton
• Yummy Scent of Some Plastic Trash Makes Fish Think It’s Food, Study Finds
• Tiny Pacific Island Has No Humans but Gets Much of World’s Plastic Trash

ReadWorks

• What a Dump
• Freeing the Ocean of Plastic
• Cleaning Up the Ocean

National Geographic Kids

Earth Science Journal For Kids

Where Did My Plastic Go

Wonderopolis

• Where is the World’s Largest Pile of Trash?
• How Long Does It Take Plastic to Decompose?

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Songs

• Marine Debris is No Joke
• The Marine Debris Song
• Our Only World
• Keep the Ocean Clean
• Plastic Free Song by Jack Johnson
• Plastic Song
• Don’t Throw It Away by Keb’ Mo’ with Taj Mahal
• Plastic Island by Tavana
• Fragments by Jack Johnson

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Cartoons

• Beat Plastic Pollution
• Plastik
• The Ocean’s Inhabitants
• Plastics in the Ocean
• Aquarium Plastic Pollution Waste Fish
• World Whale
• Pollution

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Infographics

• How Long Until It’s Gone?
• Marine Debris is Everyone’s Problem
• Sources of Marine Litter
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Fact Sheets

• Marine Debris
• What Are the Garbage Patches?
• NOAA Marine Debris Program