Plastics Education Toolkit
How to Use this Resource
This toolkit provides a menu of resources that educators are invited to adapt based on their unique student and classroom needs. You’ll find a collection of high-quality resources developed by other organizations and original resources created by Plastic-Free MKE partners. We welcome your feedback to help us continually improve our curriculum and content.
An introduction to plastic
Plastics 101 Slides - Short Version
Plastics 101 Slides - Long Version
We created the long version to cover many different plastics topics so you can pull slides best suited to your curriculum. We encourage you to make a copy of the slideshow and edit it to best suit your students’ needs.
plastics activities & FREE Lesson Plans
A collection of activities and lesson plans developed by environmental organizations.
Plastics Reading and video list
A reading list and comprehensive video list for students of various ages.
Previous Youth Education Coordinator at Milwaukee Riverkeeper conducting an audit with Reflo’s high school interns.
Bring us into your classroom!
Are your students interested in learning about the increasingly plastic world around them?
Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a Plastic-Free MKE coalition member, can provide a free, in-classroom lesson and audit that will help students understand the lifecycle of plastic, how the process of creating plastics causes pollution, and how their disposal leads to problems in our ecosystems. Along with a lesson, students can conduct an audit of their plastic waste, discuss problems and patterns with plastics, and reflect on solutions through their lens.
Contact the Youth Education Coordinator at Milwaukee Riverkeeper for more information. education@milwaukeeriverkeeper.org