TEAM MARINE HOSTS SCREENING OF THE MOVIE TAPPED.

EVERYONE CAN COME! ITS COMPLETELY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!!!


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When: March 24th @ 4pm
Where: Santa Monica High School Barnum Hall
601 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica California 90405
Cost: FREE
Sponsored by Team Marine and The Daily Ocean.

Wanna know more about the movie? visit. www.tappedthemovie.com

LabCoats present:LifeStraws at your school!

For the Edison Challange Team LabCoats made an original video on 10 steps to setting up a LifeStraws recycling program at your school!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0luR-jnlc

Team Marine Submits To The QuikSCience Challenge

Pictured above: Team Marine jumps for joy after submitting their project


This is Team Marine's 3rd year participating in the QuickSCience Challenge. The QuickScience Challenge is sponsored by The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Quiksilver, Inc. The Challenge is a multi-faceted competition where teams must create and present environmental lesson plans, develop a multimedia project, write a research proposal, come up with a new solution for an environmental problem and do community outreach. We submitted their project on February 19th but we are far from being done helping the environment!


Pictured above: Team Marine at USC submitting their project


Pictured Above: Team Marine celebrates by going out for some thai food.

Check out the QuikSCience Challenge Website

Team Marine Teaches The Youth

Pictured above: Team Marine teaches Mr. Guthrie's 8th grade science class at Culver City Middle School

We carpooled to Lincoln Middle School, Animo Leadership Charter High School, Culver City Middle School, and Santa Monica Alternative School House to give a presentation on our 10 R’s Curriculum. Each school varied with the age group we presented to, but overall we presented to grades 7 to 12. For each group we modified our lesson plan depending on the age group we were presenting to along with the language of our content. We first introduced ourselves and the documentary we had created concerning the negative impacts of single-use plastics and our Ten R’s solutions to the problem. As the video we presented ours Ten R’s power point which had content based on problems of single-use plastics, global warming, ocean acidification and our solutions. Then when we were done presenting we assigned students to four different stations the first one was based on the carbon cycle and explained to them the difference between a source and a sink. The second demo station was on ocean acidification which included dropping eggshells and chalk in vinegar to demonstrate how coral bleaching occurs. In addition to that demo we used a universal indicator to show how carbon dioxide makes the ocean acidic by blowing bubbles with a straw in distilled water. The third station involved two beakers filled halfway with the same amount of water, one beaker covered with a small net and an ice cube placed on both. Then we melted the ice cube on top of the beaker with the net with a hair dryer to show that glacial ice being melted by global warming can cause a higher sea level rise than sea ice melting. The last station included a club soda, a stopper with a tube, and tilted it towards the beaker with distilled water to show ocean acidification to show how carbon transfers to fresh water and makes the ocean acidic by verifying it with the universal indicator. Then after everybody had been to each demo station we played the carbon cycle game to see how much content they retained with station that pertained to it and handed out organic lollipops to those who guessed correctly.


Pictured above: Team Marine members Daniel Franco and Valerie Wacker do a lab on ocean acidification with 8th grade students at Culver City Middle School

Focus The Nation

Pictured above: Team Marine speaks on the problems currently facing our planet.

On Thursday February 4th 2010 Team Marine teamed up wit Santa Monica High School's ASB to put on Focus The Nation. Focus The Nation was a school wide assembly for periods one thru six. Team Marine brought in many expert speakers on sustainability and the environment such as ACE, Heal The Bay, THe Plastic Pollution Coalition and The City Of Santa Monica. The assemblies were attended by hundreds of Santa Monica High School students who learned about the problems facing our planet and what hey can do to make a difference. Team Marine presented and displayed their documentary "Rethink" to periods four thru 6.


Pictured above: ACE speaks to Santa Monica High School students about global warming.

Team Marine: Aquarium Of The Pacific

Pictured above Eileen Flores teaches a family about the importance of reusable bags.

On Saturday January 16th Team Marine was invited to hold a booth at the Aquarium Of The Pacific for their Underwater Parks Day. At Team Marine's booth patrons to the aquarium could learn about the marine debris and global warming crisis, the importance of MLPAs, what Team Marine is doing to help and practices they can apply to their everyday lives in order to live more sustainably.


Pictured above Capwoman Megan Kilroy greets guests at the aquarium in front of Team Marine's booth.

HELP TEAM MARINE SAVE THE OCEAN

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Team Marine is a group of students at Santa Monica High School who are fighting to save our environment!

We need to once and for all ban single-use plastic bags in Santa Monica. Our oceans are suffering at the hands of this throw-away society. We need to protect this incredible resource for future generations. Single-use plastic has become more abundant than plankton outweighing it 6:1. The sea has become a plastic soup killing millions of animals and hurting our economy.
This does not have to continue! We can fight this by banning single-use plastic bags in Santa Monica and switching to reusable bags!

Facts:
In the United States alone 100 billion single-use plastic bags are thrown away with less than 5% getting recycled.

Plastic bags were the most common plastic item found in the digestive tract of 408 leatherback sea turtles according to a 2009 study that reviewed historical necropsies

The energy used to make about 9 plastic bags is equivalent to the energy it takes to drive a car one kilometer, or 0.62 miles.

Plastic litters our beaches, exacts a toll on our environment, and costs cities money to clean up. It is a threat to all ocean-dependent, tourism-oriented economies. California's ocean economy alone is valued at $43 billion.

Currently, 86% of all sea turtle species, 44% of all seabird species, and 43% of all marine mammal species, have had reported problems of entanglement or ingestion of marine debris.

The annual cost to clean Los Angeles County's 31 miles of coastline is over $4 million.

This is a petition to show the City of Santa Monica that the people support the ban on single-use plastic bags.