Education

Plastic pollution is a complex issue, so we created Plastic Pollution Pathways to help you and your students explore it with confidence. We reorganized our existing curriculum into focused learning pathways, making it easier for educators to choose the topics that best fit their goals. Every pathway is fully digital and accessible, giving you the flexibility to teach about plastic pollution in a way that works for your audience. Different Pathways can be followed to explore different topics. For example, here are the Pathways for our CASCADE Programs. 

Below is a list of the modules with links as available:

1. Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE)
2. Everyday Plastics
3. Plastic Density Exploration
4. Plastic Density Bottles
5. Bioplastic Creation
6. Bioplastic Breakdown
7. Plastic Mess
8. Microplastic Pathways
9. Microplastics in Your Environment
10. Plastic Pollution Cruise
11. Soil and Water Badge Guide for BSA Scouting
12. Seeing Watershed
13. Community Science Clean-Up
14. Storm Water Debris Sampling for Youth
15. Storm Water Debris Sorting for Youth
16. Litter Clean-up for Education
17. Incredible Journey with Plastic
18. Combined Sewer Overflow Model
19. Litter Storytelling
20. Straw Stress Test
21. Polymer Creation
22. Bird Beak Buffet… or Bust?
23. Plastic Bar Graphs
24. Community Inventory and Audience Identification
25. Branding for STEM
26. Sand Sieving
27. Plastic Mosaics
28. Meet the Plastics
29. RIT Youth Campus Visit
30. Plastic Panic
31. Story Map for CASCADE
32. Dashboard for CASCADE

Educational resources are supported in part by The Wayne Harris Delta Environmental Education Endowment to continue the legacy of Delta Environmental and its founder Wayne Harris. This nonprofit was originally created as Delta Laboratories in 1971 by Wayne Harris, who believed that results and evidence were the best way to show people why they needed to advocate for a cleaner environment.

For more information on educational materials contact Kaeti Stoss.