Plastic Use Audit
Grade: 6th grade
PURPOSE: Investigate the types and quantities of plastic waste generated in the classroom, home, or school-wide.
Links: Monterey Bay Aquarium activity
Action Steps:
- Introduce the issue of plastic pollution and focus questions to students.
- As a class, determine a question or problem to investigate with a plastic audit.
- Design the investigation as a class.
- Conduct the audit.
- Analyze audit data.
- Students formulate a conclusion.
- Propose an awareness message about plastic consumption for your school, classroom, or student households.
- Conduct a follow-up audit and compare results with the initial audit.
- Return to the focus question.
- Upload your Plastic Audit Data Sheet into the OSO SAP Google Form.