How to Help

<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->  A summary of the efforts of University of the Virgin Islands master's students' efforts to conduct outreach on single-use plastic and other marine debris reduction across the islands.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->  A summary of student divers who conducted in-water debris removal projects.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->  A summary of efforts to find new ways to communicate Marine Debris information through the University of the Virgin Islands.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->  A summary of an annual "Trashion Show" where students incorporate debris into costumes and other art.

This lesson is best done after completion of one lesson in each of the sections Composition & Abundance, Sources & Transportation, and Impacts. Students will take everything they have learned about marine debris to create, develop, and complete a project to share their knowledge.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->  A summary of the Plastic-Free Island summit in 2017.

A summary on the VIMAS efforts to suppor the International Coastal Cleanup each year.

Utilizing field work and in-class activities, students will learn to identify, sort and classify marine debris in the Virgin Islands.

This concluding section of the Trash Shouldn't Splash Toolkit highlights the project team's lessons learned and tips for groups interested in organizing their own marine debris prevention group in their community.

These materials can support student groups who are interested in reaching out to their school communities, including organizing art contests and visiting peer classrooms with marine debris education presentations. 

These materials can support student groups doing informal outreach, including tabling events, as well as reaching out to local decision-makers on topics to prevent marine debris. 

These materials can support student groups in reaching out to restaurants to collaborate on efforts to prevent marine debris by reducing single-use plastics. Materials include a script for engaging with restaruant staff, tips on how to effectively recruit restaurant partners, and examples of products and outreach materials to share with restaurant partners.

The Communication Materials can support student groups in creating and designing a flexible outreach campaign for reducing single-use plastics in their community, including a logo, website, and social media materials. 

In this lesson, students will learn about the impact of school waste on the environment. They will use math to measure some/all of the waste produced in one day on campus, and brainstorm ways to reduce that waste.

In this lesson students pose questions about the nature of the litter found around their school, make predictions, do a campus cleanup to cultivate environmental stewardship, and then brainstorm solutions to prevent litter.