Learn about the problems of plastics big and small, and how they impact marine ecosystems. Themes include the feeding behaviours of marine animals that promote plastic ingestion and the challenges of plastic entanglement. The program wraps up with a garbage breakdown timeline game.
Duration: 1 hour (can be extended to 1.5 hours)
Cost: $125 (to $200 for 1.5 hour version)
**This program is offered on the Nanaimo Campus and at the Deep Bay Marine Field Station**
- Grade 2 Science: Physical ways of changing materials
- Grade 5 Science: Basic structures of functions of body systems
- Grade 5 Science: Survival Needs; evidence of climate changeover geological time and the recent impacts of humans
- Grade 6 Science: Mixtures: separated using a difference in component properties
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