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 and Documentaries
The Story of Plastic – The Story of Stuff
Plastic Disaster – An Ocean Pollution Documentary
The Story of Microbeads
Turning the Tide | Plastic on the Ganges
The Story of Plastic – Break Free From Plastic
A Plastic Wave – A documentary film on plastic pollution
Plastic pollution rising at an alarming rate, affecting 88% of marine species, says WWF Report | WION
The Story of Plastic: Where Your Recycled Plastic Ends Up
The Story of Microplastics
Explained | Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
Scientific Studies and Articles
Solving Plastic Pollution Through Accountability
No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People
Microplastics as contaminants in Indian environment: a review
Plastics and Microplastics- A Threat to the Environment and Health
Dirty Cleanser: Assessment of Microplastics in Cosmetics
Odours From Marine Plastic Debris Induce Food Search Behaviours in a Forage Fish
Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts
Microplastics Have Moved into Virtually Every Crevice on Earth
Estimation of the Mass of Microplastics Ingested – A Pivotal First Step Towards Human Health Risk Assessment
Message in a Bottle: Open Source Technology to Track the Movement of Plastic Pollution
Why Eat Plastic?
Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Health and Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic
Human Health Concerns Regarding Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment- From Marine to Food Systems
Discovery and Quantification of Plastic Particle Pollution in Human Blood
Plastics and Plankton in Our Seas
The Microplastic Cycle: An Introduction to a Complex Issue
Books
Microplastic pollutants by Christopher Blair Crawford and Brian Quinn
Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process by Michael S. Bank
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis- Erica Cirino
