Intended for: Children in elementary school from 1st to 5th grade

Objectives

• Raise awareness among young people about the presence of pollution along the coast and in nature.
• Learn to identify the different types of waste, their origin (source), and their fate in nature (impact).
• Understand how this waste is toxic for the fauna and flora.
• Adopt an eco-citizen attitude, at your own scale, to limit marine pollution: clean-up activities, recycling, and solutions to limit waste production (new behaviors).
• Become an actor in collaborative activities and/or participatory science: use a digital application to transmit information from field observations.

Actions

• Provision of an educational kit for cycles 1,2 and 3
  Made available for the associations Mer-Terre and GEOM, within the framework of the Sea Network of the PACA Region.
  A panel of fun activities adapted by grade, to raise awareness among children about the protection of the marine environment. http://geom-asso.com/?page_id=215
  
  

Cycle 2. Questioning the World: Living, matter, object

Learn about the characteristics, interactions and diversity of the living world.

• Identify the interactions of living organisms among themselves and with their environment.
• Become aware of the diversity of living organisms present in an environment and their inter-dependence.
• Understand the notion of food relations between living organisms.

Take charge of aspects of community life and the environment, and develop civic, social and ecological awareness.

• Gradually get involved in collective life at different levels.
• Cooperate towards a common goal.

Moral and civic education

• Cooperate towards a common goal.

Cycle 3: Science and technology

Describe the states and constitution of matter on a macroscopic scale

• Understand the diversity of matter: metals, minerals, glass, plastics, organic matter in various forms, etc.

Identify the main families of materials

• Identify families of materials (distinction of materials based on shape, function and process)
• Understand their environmental impact

Diversity and functions that characterize living organisms

• Describe how living organisms develop and become able to reproduce.
• Explain the origin of organic matter in living organisms and its fate.
• Identify environmental issues: Distribution of living organisms and their habitats.
• Understand how living organisms interact among themselves and with their environment.
• Link the organisms in a given habitat and the living conditions.
• Identify some human impacts in an environment (development, technological impact, etc.)
• Follow and describe the fate of some materials in the immediate environment.