Environmental education
with youth-leadership, citizen science, civic action,
media + arts
(scroll down to watch the program in action!)
Free Educational Resources (K-12)
toolkits with lesson plans, movies, activities, games
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Watch: "We are Citizen Scientists" on Vimeo ->; students from PS 15 Patrick F. Daly in Red Hook, Brooklyn take to the streets ti collect litter and data!
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Students collect data, debate the issues, and then take action,
using their own local data to inform policy!
Watch "Got Reusable Bags?" and see the program in action:
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Watch: "Got Reusable Bags?" on Vimeo -> ; be inspired by this program with 7th grade students from MS 246 Walt Whitman in E. Flatbush, Brooklyn!
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@cafcu
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Youth-led Action!
Youth Rally at City Hall to ban foam
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NYC styrofoam ban goes into effect
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youth-made videos
on Plastic Free Waters
Our students debate, ask questions, collect data, and tell their own powerful stories about how local plastic street litter becomes global toxic marine pollution, threatening our oceans and marine wildlife.
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Watch "Dear Humans" on YouTube; Watch on Vimeo -> (made by 4th grade students from PS15 Patrick F Daly, Brooklyn, NY)
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Watch "#SaveOurOcean - Your Litter is Killing Marine Life" on Vimeo ->
(edited by a 7th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY) |
Cafeteria Culture empowers youth with
the knowledge & tools to design and pilot
community-based solutions
that have a global impact
to reduce plastics in our waterways.
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Watch LITTER MONSTERS on Vimeo here -> (made by 5th grade students from PS34 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Manhattan, NY)
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Watch THE FLAWS OF STRAWS on Vimeo here -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY)
Watch "East Flatbush Litter #SaveACritter" on Vimeo -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY))
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Are there microplastics in the fish we eat?
How do tiny microbeads from our body care products get into the ocean?
How do tiny microbeads from our body care products get into the ocean?
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Watch "the Story of Alaina and Joe" on Vimeo -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY)
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Watch "The Dark Beauty of the Beads - #beadfree" on Vimeo -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY)
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, "I did look at the Cafeteria Culture videos. The cool thing about it is that the kids in the video look like the kids that we are bringing today. The faces are familiar. If they see kids like them doing something good, hopefully it gives them more of a push to come out and do the same good as the kids they see in the video.The videos ultimately made another connection between what we are doing in the class and what we are doing out here [North Channel Beach]." |
Watch "Keep It Wavy, Keep It Clean" on Vimeo -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY)
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How does our plastic street litter become deadly marine pollution?
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On rainy days, the increase of storm water runoff forces street litter in many of our NYC neighborhoods (and over 700 other US municipalities) to flow into our sewer systems, where it mixes with our sewage, and then flows directly out to our local waterways and beyond. Watch "The Journey of Plastic Litter - Do you know where your bottle cap goes?" - created by 8th grade students from MS 246 Walt Whitman in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Many of our PLASTIC FREE WATERS videos have been created by 5th - 8th grade students in our programs. This curriculum is a part of Cafeteria Culture’s interdisciplinary environmental education, ARTS + MEDIA for PLASTIC FREE WATERS School Program. |
Watch "The Journey of Plastic Litter" on Vimeo -> (made by 8th grade student from MS246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY)
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Youth Take Action on the NYC Plastic Bag Bill
Shahzia, Rachel, Nerlande and Taina, 8th grade students from MS 246 Walt Whitman, at NY City Hall with Council Member Brad Lander, sharing personal view points on plastic litter issues. (2016)
Eighth grade students from MS 246 Walt Whitman interview neighbors about street litter and plastic marine pollution.
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PS34 5th grade students studied NYC's single-use carryout bag bill, debated both sides, then took ACTION for a greener, cleaner NYC and plastic free oceans. Watch "5th Grade Change-makers Take Action..." on Vimeo ->
Rebeca, Tompkins Square Middle School student, CafCu ARTS+ACTION program alum (PS34m), speaking at City Hall!
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Global Partnerships for Plastic Free Waters!
Watch: Kids in Tokyo and NYC Share a Message about Marine Litter
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Watch "Kids in Tokyo & NYC..." on Vimeo->
Why PLASTIC FREE WATERS education?
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Students from MS 246 Walt Whitman participating in a beach litter survey and clean up at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the only US National Park with a subway running thru it!
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Youth Citizen Scientists!
MS246 Walt Whitman 7th graders collect street litter data in East Flatbush
PS15 Patrick F Daly 4th graders collect street litter data in Red Hook Brooklyn
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NEST+M third graders conduct a street litter survey of their school block.
PS34 M Franklin D Roosevelt School 5th grade students collect and survey litter omnAve. D in Alphabet City, Manhattan
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Learn more about plastic free action you can take!
See youth and community-led action on NYC's styrofoam ban here ->
Want to learn more about getting styrofoam out of your school?->
Giant Data Puppets - student messaging about styrofoam
As part of Cafcu's ARTS+ACTION program, PS 20 M second grade students learned about the connections between garbage and climate change then, constructed a giant polar bear puppet out 500 used foam trays, collected in their cafeteria.
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As part of cafCu's ARTS+ACTION program, 5th grade students at PS 221 K learned about styrofoam and marine pollution then, workshopped a play, built giant character puppets and performed their play for fellow students in the school playground.
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