Step 1: ASK a Question to Introduce the Problem

The issue of plastic pollution was first presented visually within a school-wide (N=600 students) slideshow detailing my expedition images. The image below was presented as an open-ended inquiry for student consideration.

Photo by Maya Santangelo

"Ms. Warmouth traveled to the High Arctic near the North Pole. She found plastic garbage washing up on the shorelines of remote islands where no humans live. One of the items in the picture looks a lot like the plastic sporks we use every day at school.

Where did it come from and how did it get there?"