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Planet Solutions To Plastics
Data Collection
Collecting Data on Plastic Pollution In Our Communities
Who
Quarantined, or avidly practicing social distancing in them midst of the COVID-19 Planet Pandemic?
Here’s something you can do to meaningfully impact your home, community, country, and indeed the planet.
This is for persons from ages 3 to 103. Pre K- plus: Continuing/Ongoing Education: Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Sectors Children ages 3 to 103 Educators (all Levels from preK) Change Agents, Community & other Leaders, Policy & Decision Makers, Train the Trainers, Sustainable Community Development Planners, Leaders, NGOs
- List 2-4 learning objectives
for your implementation plan. As you determine your instructional goals,
consider:
Objectives:
- To inspire participants to drive action for change, beginning with adjusting
their own lifestyles for in their homes and communities for more conscious actions
to reduce plastic use and pollution.
- To enhance the data bank of information on plastic use and disposal.
- To develop participant s’ skills in data collection, critical analyses
and use for informed decision making and effect long term attitude and
behavioural change in use of plastics and non-biodegradable substances
- To increase understanding about the harmful effects of use of plastics
on the environment
- and empower communities and authorities to act against plastic
pollution and institute plastic reuse and recycling, inspired by children
- Why do you think your students should collect data in order to affect
positive change?
Participants can
make an impact on national and regional scale by adjusting their own actions
and habits, owning responsibility, taking charge and driving conscious actions
from within their homes and communities into awareness and understanding about
responsibility. In this way, their actions can influence parents and elders as
leaders and decision makers at home, in the community, in industry and at
national and regional policy levels.
- Why is it important for your students to learn about plastic pollution
in your community?
While there is
general awareness of plastic pollution as an issue, few realise how close to
home it is and how adjusting individual consumption habits can impact broader changes
in community and society. This focusses on sensitising and adjusting the
attitudes and actions of next generation leaders and decision makers about the
growing indiscriminate use of plastics and arbitrary disposal. As a largely
agricultural and ecological rural district, the impact of plastic accumulation on
soil quality and can directly affect sources of income and sources of food.
Additionally, the main focus of national recycling programmes are in the urban
centres and less emphasis is placed on rural communities. Participants can
drive the community actions for greater involvement and inclusion of rural
districts in national programmes.
It is also meant
to cull skills in gathering sound information in support of their causes.
To cultivate their
community and social consciousness.
To help shape
their outlooks as responsible and empowered citizens.
To prepare them as
next generation of leaders to awareness, understanding and change.
To influence and change
the behaviour of adults, parents and leaders.
Data is an
important tool in civic action for change. The process of data collection is
itself a mechanism for building awareness and growing consciousness. Additionally,
it is an empowerment tool that it provides the information and evidence to
drive action and policy and legislative change. The data collected will be used
for lobby and advocacy to increase awareness and understanding about use of
plastics and promote more conscious attitudes and behaviour to plastics use,
reuse and recycling and repurposing. It will be used to inform education and
other policies in the community.
- What standards (C3, NGSS, CCSS,
or other) will students be addressing? Do not copy/paste the standards, just
provide the reference.
This aims to integrate and align the Values,
Character and Citizenship Education components of the Trinidad and
Tobago education system in informal service learning at broad community
involving youths
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