Building a Watershed

An Educator's Guide to Marine Debris.

In this lesson, students build a model showing how water flows through a system and evaluate different management practices to see how they might reduce the amount of marine debris that enters the marine environment. The models in this lesson could be used as a classroom demonstration or traditional lab investigation for students, depending on time efficiency of instructor and students. This lesson may also be shortened by showing students a pre-made model beforehand.

An Educator's Guide to Marine Debris was designed as a stand-alone teaching tool or to supplement lessons for educators in both formal and informal settings. Appropriate for students grades K-12, with a focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) objectives.

Lesson Plans
Building a Watershed: An Educator's Guide to Marine Debris, Lesson Four
Education Tags:
Marine Debris Topics:  
• Types and Sources  
Audience:  
• Grade 6-8  
Subject:  
• Language Arts  
• Earth Science  
• Life Science  
Special Categories:  
• Class Discussion  
• Spanish  
• Models  
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas:  
• LS2: Ecosystems  
• LS4: Biological Evolution  
• ESS2: Earth’s Systems  
• ESS3: Earth and Human Activity  

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

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