
Join a scientific expedition in the Pacific Ocean! Follow scientists on a three week journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; a gyre in the in Pacific Ocean where a lot of human waste especially plastics have gathered.
The scientific method will guide kids through the process of asking questions, forming a hypothesis, experimenting and processing data to form conclusions.
Plastic, Ahoy! researchers ask questions about how all the plastic in the ocean is affecting marine ecology, habitat, food chains and marine life. We get to see exactly how their research is carried out, along with tools they use and experiments that they carried out. All of this is documented with great photography. A good addition for any science classroom or any child interested in science. This book offers a good way to explore a current environmental issue that they can follow along with and affect with their actions in real life.
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