Refuge’s WoW focuses on microplastic
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Seventh-graders learn how difficult it is for shorebirds to feed without ingesting microplastics.
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Impressed with the Wildlife on Wheels's work, environmental activist Diane Wilson sent Urban Educator Melissa Maher nurdle kits to use in her classes.
The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge reported that for seventh-grade curriculum, the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge’s Wildlife on Wheels has been bringing on lessons about the detriments of microplastic. The team thanked environmental activist Diane Wilson for her donation of a nurdles kit to help it explain about the formation of plastic from tiny pellets and how plastic products eventually return to that size to pollute seas and look like food to marine animals. The WoW remained at Oak Hammock Middle School in the Tice community through May 7 — its last commitment of the school year before the summer camp visits begin.