Learning for
a Clean Sea
5-Lesson
Educational
Programme
TEACHER RESOURCES
Below are links for teachers that provide additional resources including films, documentaries, scientific studies and books that delve more deeply into the topics being discussed in each lesson. Please go through these materials ahead of teaching each lesson and use the information to complement the lessons.
FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES
- The Story of Plastic – The Story of Stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3SA4YyEYU - The Story of Plastic – Break Free From Plastic
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/thestoryofplastic/ - The Story of Plastic: Where Your Recycled Plastic Ends Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urFZ5o0az_4 - Plastic Disaster – An Ocean Pollution Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1acjqraXMhs - A Plastic Wave – A documentary film on plastic pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dpv2xbFyk - The Story of Microplastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_RBPAhx06w - The Story of Microbeads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAiIGd_JqZc - Plastic pollution rising at an alarming rate, affecting 88% of marine species, says WWF Report | WION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKgO8xgRUg - Explained | Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0jER_yC5Q - Turning the Tide | Plastic on the Ganges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQC1eMcGA7Q
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES & ARTICLES
- Solving Plastic Pollution Through Accountability
https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/solving-plastic-pollution-through-accountability - Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Plastic-and-Health-The-Hidden-Costs-of-a-Plastic-Planet-February-2019.pdf - No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People
https://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/plastic_ingestion_press_singles.pdf - Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts
https://os.copernicus.org/articles/18/1/2022/ - Health and Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic
https://singleuseplastics.plasticpollutioncoalitionresources.org - Microplastics as contaminants in Indian environment: a review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8514609/ - Microplastics Have Moved into Virtually Every Crevice on Earth
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/microplastics-in-virtually-every-crevice-on-earth - Human Health Concerns Regarding Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment- From Marine to Food Systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722008221 - Plastics and Microplastics- A Threat to the Environment and Health
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/t/61fc1ecd155e7250e645db15/1643912946056/Plastics+and+Microplastics+EEHI+Report+12-2021.pdf - Estimation of the Mass of Microplastics Ingested – A Pivotal First Step Towards Human Health Risk Assessment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389420319944?via%3Dihub - Discovery and Quantification of Plastic Particle Pollution in Human Blood
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 - Dirty Cleanser: Assessment of Microplastics in Cosmetics
http://toxicslink.org/docs/Toxics%20Link%20-%20Cosmetic%20Report.pdf - Message in a Bottle: Open Source Technology to Track the Movement of Plastic Pollution
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242459 - Plastics and Plankton in Our Seas
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355097556_Plastics_and_Plankton_in_Our_Seas - Odours From Marine Plastic Debris Induce Food Search Behaviours in a Forage Fish
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.1000 - Why Eat Plastic?
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/why-eat-plastic–56896 - The Microplastic Cycle: An Introduction to a Complex Issue
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-78627-4_1
BOOKS
- Microplastic pollutants by Christopher Blair Crawford and Brian Quinn
- Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process by Michael S. Bank
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-78627-4 - Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis- Erica Cirino
