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Module: FutureEarth · Grade band: Grades 6–10 · Duration: ~40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Understand the dangers of plastic pollution and microplastics.
- Identify how plastic enters our oceans, food, and even our bodies.
- Discover sustainable alternatives to plastic.
- Pledge to reduce plastic use in daily life.
Why this matters
This lesson is part of the FutureEarth track — a future-ready skill you can use in everyday life. Treat it like a mission: warm up, explore, practise, then take it into the real world.
How to work through it
- Warm-up — get curious and connect it to something you've seen.
- Core idea — read the key concept and try the mini-activity.
- Practise — do the hands-on exercise.
- Reflect — answer the quiz to lock it in and earn XP.
- Quest — take the project into a real situation this week.
Try it now
Pause for 30 seconds: *"Where in my week could I actually use this?"* Jot down one place, one person, and one moment. That's your launchpad.