Read the Newsela article at: https://newsela.com/articles/plastic-ocean/id/2308/ Complete the Vocabulary activities and write your summary paragraphs. | Show your use and understanding of the key vocabulary words in your writing piece. Write your three paragraph response. Provide Text Evidence: Use at least two details (facts, and or quotes) from the article to support your response.
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Thinking further. Watch this TED TALK about 12th grade students Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao who went in search of a new bacteria to biodegrade plastic. Find out how plastics affect bird populations. Read this article at International Bird Rescue.org Message from the Gyre is a short film. It is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. . Urban tumbleweed. Bag hawks. Shoppers’ kites. Whatever you call them, billions of plastic grocery bags are discarded each year. Read more here: Local Hero Watch another fascinating TED TALK by Roz Savage, the first woman to row solo across the Pacific. (video) She describes rowing past the North Pacific Garbage Patch, an area twice the size of Texas containing an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash, most of it plastic. Read an article she wrote at: Sailors for the Sea.org You can find more interesting facts about the plastic problem and ways we can reduce plastic waste at. MNN.com (Mother Nature Network) Plastic Bank: How to solve the plastic pollution problem and poverty at the same time Everyone Can Help Every individual can help to preserve the seas from the dangerous consequences of plastic debris. Marine protection starts with our own consumption patterns at home. Read more at: Plastic Garbage Project |