Lesson 2 Pollution and Conservation: Create Your Own Garbage Patch

Create Your Own Garbage Patch

Greetings!

We are going to set up our first experiment for this unit today. Take a look at the directions on the digital poster below. It has instructions and a materials list.

 

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Tiny Garbage Patch

 

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Assignment

Science journal entry:

Answer the following questions in your science journal:

  1. Describe how the jar looks today with all of the “trash” in it.
  2. Is the “trash” that is inside your jar pretty common for what your household throws out on a regular basis?
  3. What do you think your Tiny Garbage Patch will look like after one day? One week? What about a month?
  4. Where do you think you would see garbage like this in the real world?

 

 

 

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