Provided by: PBS Wisconsin Education |Published on: June 27, 2023
Articles/Websites Grades 3-5, 6-8
Synopsis
This resource explores how Milly Zantow started a global movement to recycle plastics, what motivated her to start this movement, and what challenges she faced in the movement's early phases.
The resource includes a digital book with audio, a video, a brief biography, and a photo gallery.
This video shows that one person can make a massive difference.
The digital book and video can accommodate ESL learners with audio and subtitles.
Additional Prerequisites
Students need to understand the environmental impacts of landfills and plastic pollution.
Students need to know what decomposition is and why it's important.
Differentiation
This resource could support an activity or lab exercise where students see how fast different materials break down in soil.
This resource could enhance a classroom discussion on how many elected officials lack a background in natural sciences and the consequences of this.
This resource could augment a lesson about greenhouse gas emissions produced by landfills and how these emissions exacerbate global climate change.
This resource could supplement a classroom discussion on what government regulations could be put in place to compel businesses to use a more circular model for their products, through bottle exchanges or other means.