Bear Exploration Center

Magnet Curriculum

2023-2024

5th Grade: Miss Gaddis

Saving Earth with the Ocean Cleanup Project

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Standards

Grade Level -5th

Content Area- Science

Standard: 5.17

ALCOS- Science (Design solutions, test, and revise a process for cleaning a polluted environment (e.g., simulating an oil spill in the ocean or a flood in a city and creating a solution for containment and/or cleanup)

Objective/Overview

Objective:

Students will identify, model, and analyze solutions to reduce human impact on Earth.

Project Overview:

Students were able to learn about the positive and negative impact that humans have on Earth. While learning about human impact students had to brainstorm and research some solutions to solve the way how humans negatively impact or pollute the Earth's Oceans. Students were randomly paired in groups where they assigned jobs, collaborated to research, design a prototype, and build their project prototype.

Project Rubric

Project Guidelines

Below you will find two images of the classes and their group projects, along with the "ocean" (kiddy pool) with trash and marine life.

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