STUDENTS⬇︎ 
​Community Service hours

TEACHERS⬇︎ 
​Citizen Science / Outdoor Learning!

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STUDENTS

• Ask for parent or guardian permission.
• Read the Safety Guidelines together.

Earn Community Service hours 

• Download & complete the Community Service Verification form.
• Use this Google form (https://forms.gle/4KVu51qajqoddLDo8)
   to upload your data and photos (maximum of 10 hours credit)
• After you upload your data and complete the Community Service form, Cafeteria Culture will send you a letter to share with your school or organization.

 ****IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure you do this clean-up with guardian or adult supervisions; if you are old enough to go alone, you must have guardian permission.

View and download the Community Service Verification form as a PDF ⬇︎

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View and download the Community Service Verification form as a Word doc ⬇︎

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​FOR TEACHERS

Reasons to add this activity to your plans:

• Take your students outdoors for Climate Action and a citizen science activity;
• Merge citizen science with social studies;
• Analyze student data as part of a math lesson;
• Follow-up with an ELA Persuasive Writing lesson (Letters to the Editor and to policy makers) with a real-world, timely issue that benefits from adding student collected data;
• Engage local community leaders, policy makers, and businesses with student-led presentations and virtual meetings;
• Build student confidence with public speaking opportunities (i.e., virtual meetings and calls to electeds)

 

• Use our Permission Slip Template 
• Screen our plastic free education videos first to engage students on the topic.
• Host a virtual MICROPLASTIC MADNESS screening; free for Title One schools.

Use this activity as part of an entire Plastic Pollution teaching unit.  
Request access to entire Unit 1 & our free Toolkit here 

Unit 1 -- Street Litter Characterization: a citizen science project towards Plastic Free Biosphere!" is available as a beta version now by request ->

OVERVIEW
Through surveying and analyzing local street litter, students gain hands-on understanding of how plastic street litter contributes to a global plastic marine pollution crisis. Their local knowledge and litter data contribute to a national database and can be used for student-designed solutions for change.
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• Screen our plastic free education videos first to engage students on the topic.
• Host a virtual MICROPLASTIC MADNESS screening; free for Title One schools.

​STUDENTS:
read the Safety Guidelines
with a parent or guardian  

TEACHERS: 
here's a permission slip template
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​Learn about the plastic pollution crisis
from students who
used their own data to advance
plastic free policy!

Click to set custom HTML

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​Host a screening of our
award winning documentary
​Microplastic Madness 
watch the trailer

Be inspired by PS15 Brooklyn 5th graders
who used litter data  to:
- engage community and local businesses
- inform policy makers on local plastic pollution issues
- accelerate plastic free policy 
- inspire others to change!
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Check out our free
REMOTE LEARNING RESOURCES

Make your own no-sew reusable bag
(and face mask)
from an old t-shirt 
 - 5 steps in 10 minutes!
Watch our short how to video ->
100 billion plastic bags are used annually in the US 
and only about 2% of them are recycled.  
Plastic bags are polluting
from the start of production to end of life.
They easily become windblown litter
that pollutes our waterways and kills marine life.

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