Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Milly Zantow: Recycling Revolutionary
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.
Subjects: Science, History, English Language Arts
Authors: PBS Wisconsin Education
Region: North America, USA - Midwest, United States, Global, Wisconsin, WI - Central Sands (CESA 5)
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- 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.
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