Sustainability at Sea Lab
Through our collaboration with Sea Lab, Community Boating Center is able to work with every fourth grade New Bedford Public School student over the course of the school year. The program consists of a three hour, interactive lesson covering the issue of marine debris. In addition to learning what marine debris is, students gain an understanding of the impacts marine debris can have on our environment, how marine debris degrades, and how to solve a real world problem by cleaning a simulated oil spill while working in small groups.
(Above) Rodman School students, Mark, McKayla, Isabella, and Dylan from Erin Allens’s 4th grade class working together to give examples of marine debris they have spotted on and around our local beaches.
(Below) At the end of each class, students work in their groups to complete a short quiz on the day’s lesson.
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