References

 

Activity 1

Student notes

 

Fidra 2019, How do they end up at sea?, Nurdle Free Oceans, viewed 16 May 2019, <https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/whats-the-problem/lost-at-sea.html>.

 

Fidra 2019, Plastic - Eaten by animals, Nurdle Free Oceans, viewed 16 May 2019, <https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/whats-the-problem/eaten-by-animals.html>.

 

Fidra 2019, Plastic - Toxic Combination, Nurdle Free Oceans, viewed 16 May 2019, <https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/whats-the-problem/toxic-combination.html>.

 

Fidra 2019, Small, smaller, microscopic!, Nurdle Free Oceans, viewed 16 May 2019, <https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/whats-the-problem/small-plastics.html>.

 

TED-Ed 2014, The nurdles’ quest for ocean domination, online video, 4 August, Youtube, viewed 18 May 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpVpJsDjWj8>.

 

Teacher notes

 

Kurzgesagt 2018, Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic, online video, 1 July, Youtube, viewed 18 May 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ>.

 

Activity 2

Student notes

 

Beurteaux, D. 2018, Heavy Metal: The New Toxic Danger Posed by Ocean Plastic Trash, News Deeply, viewed 13 May 2019, <https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2018/04/03/heavy-metal-the-new-toxic-danger-posed-by-ocean-plastic-trash>.

 

Environmental Technology 2014, Why is there Heavy Metal in Our Oceans?, Labmate Online, viewed 13 May 2019, <https://www.envirotech-online.com/news/water-wastewater/9/breaking-news/why-is-there-heavy-metal-in-our-oceans/32291>.

 

EPA Victoria 2018, Plastic resin pellets (nurdles), State Government of Victoria, viewed 12 May 2019, <https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/your-environment/waste/plastic-resin-pellets-nurdles>.

 

Teacher notes

 

TED-Ed 2014, The nurdles’ quest for ocean domination, online video, 4 August, Youtube, viewed 18 May 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpVpJsDjWj8>.

 

Activity 3

Teacher note

 

(Demonstration was taken influence from)

Science Olympiad 1999-2019, The Flame Test , viewed 22 May 2019, <https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/flametest.pdf>.

 

Activity 4

 

Greenfield, R. 2017, 30 Days of Wearing My Trash, online video, 30 January, Youtube, viewed 14 May 2019, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vCstrZ7ilk>.

 

Activity 5

 

Cooper, J., Munsie, M., Raphael, J., Roper, E., White, P., Sequence 2, Contemporary VCE Biology, viewed 12 May 2019, <https://contemporaryvcebiology.com/stem-cells/sequence-two/>.

 

Acknowledgments

 

All images used have been either taken personally or sourced from the Wix website creator  archive.