Most of us use plastic every day in some way or another. Some of us recycle the plastic, BUT some of us just throw it away. This week we will see just how devastating plastic in the ocean really is.<\/p>\n
Watch the video below as an introduction to this eye opening topic. <\/strong><\/p>\n A Plastic Ocean – Video<\/a><\/p>\n WATCH – Plastic in the ocean: A graphic overview<\/a><\/p>\n In the graphic overview you will find several myths and the truths behind each these myths.<\/p>\n To Do – Make a list of the myth and describe its reality.<\/p>\n World Ocean Day<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Fact Sheet: Plastics in the Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n TRASH TALK: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a><\/p>\n How Much Trash Is In Our Ocean?<\/a><\/p>\n For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield<\/a><\/p>\n BEST kit 2017<\/a><\/p>\n BEST Consumable Kit 2017<\/a><\/p>\n Become an expert, make a difference, do something about it\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n There are several great, yet scary articles in this link that will show you what bad shape our oceans are in.\u00a0 After reading some of these articles, make a poster that outlines the most devastating facts you can find. Take a picture of your poster and send it to bestology@bestinc.org.\u00a0 The BEST posters will be displayed on the BEST Robotics website and at the regional championships.<\/p>\n Can These Inventions Save Oceans From Our Plastic Habit?<\/p>\n Here are some very interesting innovations that we are trying in order to clean up the plastic in our oceans.<\/p>\n Go to this\u00a0link<\/a>, and learn about these inventions.<\/p>\n See if you can come up with an idea on how to collect plastics from the ocean. Brainstorm ideas and see if you can come up with a machine that can clean up plastic in the ocean. This is a great practice for brainstorming as you will be doing a lot of this during the BEST competition.<\/p>\n Click on this name, BOYAN SLAT<\/em><\/a>, and read about this incredibly smart young engineer and see how he is participating in THE OCEAN CLEANUP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Discuss ways that you as an individual, you as a group of students at your school or in your community can work together to prevent this from getting worse.<\/p>\n Below is a poem that Brian Lieu wrote about the devastation of plastic<\/strong><\/p>\n Plastic<\/strong> It never goes away\u2026 Now it\u2019s time for you to become the poet.<\/p>\n Write a small poem about the problem of plastic in the ocean.<\/p>\n Look at your BEST kit, consumables and returnables and determine which of these could possibly land up as plastic garbage in our oceans. Once you have made your list then discuss how you can avoid this from happening.<\/p>\n Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy:<\/strong> <\/em>add, create, explore, evaluate, generate, include, identify, list, observe, reflect, review, subdivide, use, and write<\/p>\n Workforce Skills:<\/strong><\/em> critical thinking, materials evaluation, reading comprehension, science, writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of us use plastic every day in some way or another. Some of us recycle the plastic, BUT some of us just throw it away. This week we will see just how devastating plastic in the ocean really is. Watch the video below as an introduction to this eye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[39,42,37,40,38,41,43],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestology-2018","tag-boyan-slat","tag-brian-lieu","tag-great-pacific-garbage-patch","tag-ocean-cleanup","tag-plastics","tag-poetry","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Myth VS Reality<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION???????<\/strong><\/h1>\n
The Oceans Are Drowning in Plastic \u2014 And No One\u2019s Paying Attention<\/span><\/h2>\n
Click on this link<\/a> and become the expert on how plastic is ruining our oceans.<\/span><\/h2>\n
Design and innovation<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Foreign Help \u2013 Let\u2019s bring it local<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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POETS CORNER<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nBrian Lieu<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIt kills, but can\u2019t be killed\u2026
\nThe albatross was full\u2026
\nWhat\u2019s stopping us from being full
\none day\u2026?
\n(We\u2019re already fool\u2026)
\nOur greatest phobia should be of it and of what it can do\u2026
\nMy greatest phobia should be of it and of the fact that I contributed\u2026
\nNumber 1 Polyethylene terephthalate Number 2 high-density polyethylene Number 3 polyvinyl chloride
\nNumber 4 Low-density polyethylene Number 5 polypropylene Number 6 polystyrene
\nNumber 7 Other\u2026
\nWhat more lurks behind the darkness of Other\u2026?
\nA new phobia in the development\u2026
\nWhat more will be killed by Other\u2026?
\nFish are friends, not recycle bins\u2026
\nBirds look better in the air than in the ground\u2026
\nHow much of the ocean will be inherited by Other\u2026?
\nUnderwater real estate is in demand\u2026
\nHow much more of Earth will be inherited by Other\u2026?<\/p>\nBEST Connection<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Community Connection:\u00a0 Making the difference<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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