Project Reflection

Conservation of Organisms-

Throughout this project I learned a lot about how plastics in the ocean can harm the marine organisms and pollute the oceans. One of the most serious threats to our oceans is plastic pollution. Approximately 90% of all trash floating on the oceans surface is plastic, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile. Plastic is not biodegradable, instead it is eaten by marine life, mistaken for food. It is washed up on beaches and breaks down into microscopic plastic dust, which attracts more debris. This has become a global problem occurring everyday. There is no part of the world left untouched by debris and its impacts. Marine debris is a threat to our environment, navigation safety, the economy and human health. Learning about this information made me become more careful and made me want to go to the beaches and help clean up the polluted trash and plastic, to help the marine life.  I really enjoyed this project and the topic I chose. I thought it was creative to make a pamphlet to express our information that we gathered. During this whole year I truly enjoyed every project we did. I felt as though they were all hands on and helped me learn and remember all the information that we had to learn!