BeachPatrol schools program
Educating our students today will lead to a better tomorrow
Educating our students today will lead to a better tomorrow
BeachPatrol regularly visits primary and secondary schools. We host educational sessions focussing on plastic litter and its impact on the environment and marine life
We can also take students out on a beach or street litter survey experience. During these exercises the students work in small groups along the beach or street to record the litter count and type using BeachPatrol survey sheets.
At the end of the survey the sheets are collated and the students spend time categorising and documenting the litter picked up in that session. This provides a great opportunity for raising awareness and helps inform how to cut back on common problem waste items.
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| 31 Mar 2020 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 | 33 | 33 Students from 2 Year 9 classes were given an intro to data collection by collecting plastic rubbish off a Port Melburne beach. Between them they removed over 1300 pieces off a 300 m long beach over 30 minutes. |
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| 06 Aug 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 11 | 25 | With this class, they were involved in community environment work. We had a talk on plastics and their getting loose in the environment. The excellent documentary BayKeepers was shown which the students were quite engaged in. |
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| 02 Aug 2019 | Lady Foster Kindergarten | Kindergarten | 23 | Meli from Elwood BeachPatrol took these little ones on a beach clean and a talk on plastic on the beaches."It was incredible! The children were super charged to help collect rubbish and were all over the dangers of plastics to the marine and land animals. The kids will be wearing the BP TShirts regularly and taking it turns to be the BP leaders in them. Great hope for the future! " |
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| 23 May 2019 | South Melbourne Primary | Prep | 120 | Today we gave 120 Prep kids a little slide show on the effects of plastic on wildlife in the ocean. Then along with 15 teachers and parents took them on three trams down to the beach for a little beach clean to pick up plastic rubbish. They loved it! |
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| 17 May 2019 | Meadows Primary School | Year 1-3 | 85 | 4 Classes from Meadows Primary School came to the beach to talk about marine life and plastic's impact on them. Some of these children had never been to a beach before. |
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| 06 May 2019 | Carey Baptist Grammer Kew | Year 8 | 34 | Students separated into two groups to clean St Kilda Beach both sides of the pier. They collected over 31 Kg of litter: 19 drink containers; 800+ cigarette butts; 4 syringes and thousands of small pieces of plastic. They walked out along the pier to the Little Penguin colony and were lucky enough to spot one penguin at home for the day. They learned about the impact of litter, particularly plastic, on this remarkable colony of wild creatures.They also learned about the invasive Northern Pacific Sea Stars that are a pest species, visible from the pier. This is part of a Curriculum Unit, Changemakers, in which students are challenged to devise solutions to the issues they encounter in their learning. They were asked to make a pledge to themselves to take one action to limit the litter they encountered today. As the excursion ended, a pelican flew down to the water and began feeding: the students efforts today were an example of how we can protect wildlife from the scourge of plastic in the marine environment |
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| 22 Mar 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year 9 J | 20 | Class 9J was introduced to the purpose of a beach litter survey to find what types of litter are coming n to the beaches. They were then taken on a beach clean |
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| 09 Mar 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | 9H | 25 | Today we took another 25 students from class 9H down to the beach near their class room. They were introduced to the concept of recording plastic litter types to be able to tell a story in their semester report of what types of litter are on the beaches. This was followed by them conducting beach clean up in teams with each team recording the types of litter the collected. At the end this was collated into one master sheet. |
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| 07 Mar 2019 | Albert Park Secondary | Year9B | 25 | Today we took another 25 students from class 9B down to the beach near their class room. They were introduced to the concept of recording plastic litter types to be able to tell a story in their semester report of what types of litter are on the beaches. This was followed by them conducting beach clean up in teams with each team recording the types of litter the collected. At the end this was collated into one master sheet. They found this sick seagull on the beach. It was picked up and taken to the local vet. |
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| 06 Mar 2019 | Firbank Grammer School | Year 9 | 22 | On this day we had 22 girl students from Firbank Grammar school come to a Port Melbourne Beach. We explained to them the importance of collecting and categorizing the types of plastic on the beach. They then conducted a survey along the beach in teams to record every piece of plastic they found. At the end each team submitted their data on to the Litter Stopper app to record it for a Victorian database. |
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