Lake Ontario Microplastics Center (LOMP) Educational Resources
Educational resources and research products from the Lake Ontario Microplastics Center (LOMP) supporting microplastics science, monitoring, and outreach.
Wayfinder Society for Environmental Education
Free environmental education lesson plans, classroom toolkits, activity guides, and more for all grade levels with a specific focus on ocean plastic pollution.
Trash Tinder
A gamified web survey collecting information to inform educational and outreach tools for marine debris.
Plastic Pirates
A European Citizen Science Campaign in which school clasess and youth groups collect plastic samples from streams and rivers and document their findings.
Lesson plan for Citizen Science Laboratory Investigation of Microplastics
Detailed instructions for low-cost lesson plan (10th-12th grades) for conducting a citizen science laboratory investigation of microplastics
Beat the Microbead App
The Beat the Microbead app allows you to scan the ingredients on packaging to see if your product contains microplastics. You will immediately see if the scanned product contains microplastics […]
Micro-Investigators: Community-Driven Microplastics Monitoring in NZ
A NZ-based microplastics citizen science group engaging schools and communities to monitor and map plastic pollution in waterways.
Adventure Scientists Global Microplastics Initiative
Collection of various occurrence database for microplastics collected by the Adventure Scientists non-profit for specific projects.
AUSMAP
Crowd-sourced repository of microplastics occurrence in Australia.
Marine Debris Tracker
Marine litter tracking database powered by citizen science crowd-sourced data using a mobile app.