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Direct linkKelly-Ann Macalpine; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The earth is drowning in plastic waste. Yet, as the plastic waste crisis grows exponentially, responses to excess waste remain stuck around containment and management processes. These approaches fail to notice that plastics know no boundaries. We now encounter plastic rocks, plastic water, plastic bodies, plastic worlds spilling into oceans and…
Descriptors: Plastics, Early Childhood Education, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
Widing, Lizette; Nilsson, Pernilla; Enochson, Pernilla Granklint – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
This study investigated students' meaning-making of polymeric concepts during modelling and discuss students' creation of visible representations in chemistry. The analysis combines a phenomenographic and social semiotic approach and leads to the finding and description of 21 different meaning-making processes. We refer to meaning-making as the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Thomas, Sue – Primary Science, 2020
Plastic waste and the bee population are two topics often discussed in relation to the environment. A practical activity in a primary school classroom linked to these areas can help to fulfil some of the requirements of the science curriculum. A study of the life of bees shows the importance of pollinators and highlights the concern many people…
Descriptors: Plastics, Wastes, Environmental Education, Learning Activities
Anjos, R. M.; Amaral, S. S. G.; Muniz, M. C.; Cardoso, R. P.; Bernardo, T. A. S.; Guerrieri, A.; Lage, L. L. – Physics Education, 2020
Harmful plastic debris found on beaches and in the oceans are not limited to drinking straws or bags. There are several synthetic organic polymers that can be used to make different kinds of plastic materials and have resulted in billions of tons of waste that can reach the aquatic biome and are harmful to freshwater and marine communities as well…
Descriptors: Spectroscopy, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Plastics
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1984
This curriculum guide provides materials for the industrial arts (grades 7-9) subject cluster of manufacturing. This subject cluster has four areas of study: metalwork, plastics, woodwork, and manufacturing. Introductory materials include an overview of the industrial arts curriculum in its entirety, a listing of program objectives for each of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Curriculum Guides, Finishing
