They know a lot about this problem and have opinions about how people can help save the animals that live in the sea. Just ask them.
The children might like to tell you about turtles in New Zealand waters and the difficulties they have surviving amongst the floating plastics.
The children were fascinated about what they saw in this youtube clip from Young Ocean Explorers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-wZQF0crE
Here are some stories the children wrote about pollution in the oceans.
Dolphins Eat Rubbish Plastic
It’s not good for them.
They will die and they can’t drink water. They will die. People shouldn’t drop
rubbish or it will go in the water.
Brooke
The turtle eats the
plastic and he dies. Grayson
The people throw
plastic in the water and turtles eat it.
Amelia
The turtle swims and
drinks the fuel. Jacob
The pollution makes the
animals sick and they drink the oil.
Lily
In the ocean the
turtles eat the plastic and they get sick. Why do they leave their
plastic? Alex
The turtles are eating
the rubbish and they get sick. They put the rubbish in the water. Emily M.
When the rubbish goes
in the ocean and they eat it and they die in the ocean. They float in the ocean
and they float to dry land. Louis
The Pollution
If the fish eat plastic
they can die because they think plastic is jellyfish. The Kelly Tarlton people
can fix them and throw them back into the water. People should not put rubbish
in the water because it will make the animals sick. Tayla
Floating Oil
The oil floated in. The
rubbish flew and flew and flew out of the bin and into the ocean. People keep
putting rubbish in the ocean. Pick it up! The animals get sick. They think it
is food. Rafferty
Oil in the Ocean
When the animals in the
ocean eat the pollution stuff they die. But, the Kelly Tarlton’s people come
and help them. They think it’s their food. People shouldn’t drop rubbish. Kyan
Pollution can kill sea
animals and they get sick because rubbish come out of the drain. People
shouldn’t do that. Chad
I saw the turtle eat
rubbish. Ciaan
The turtle swims and
eats rubbish. Wai
Pollution in the Ocean
The turtles are eating
plastic and juice bottles. When the turtles eat plastic and juice bottles
sometimes people swim out to sea and help the turtles. They think the plastic
and juice bottles are jellyfish. Chelsea
In the Ocean
In the ocean animals
eat plastic because they think it’s jellyfish and they die and they sink down
to the bottom of the sea. Lexi
The people put rubbish in
the sea and turtles eats it. Hayden
Animals in the sea have
problems because people put things in the sea and if someone doesn’t find the
sick animals then they will die. They will die and that’s why people shouldn’t
put rubbish in the sea. Emily J.
