Gyre Lesson Plans
Gyre Lesson Plans offer classroom activity ideas on themes in the Anchorage Museum's art and science exhibition Gyre: The Plastic Ocean.
All student programs align to Content Standards for Alaska Students, Cultural Standards for Educators, and Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools.
In addition to this website/DVD, teachers are encouraged to obtain a copy of the exhibition book, Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, for the complete texts of the essays that are excerpted here, and for photographs of artwork and graphics not on the website. The catalog can be purchased at the Anchorage Museum Shop or online.
Lesson Plan Summary and Standards
Currents
Links in lesson:
Plastics Then and Now
Link in lesson:
How to be a Citizen Scientist
Lesson 4: Coastal Cleanup, Data Entry and Exploration
Links in lesson:
Marine Debris Masks
Tires Underwater by Elizabeth Leader
Pencil drawing
Buffalo, New York
Lesson plans created by Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies. Art lessons created in partnership with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies and the Washed Ashore Project.
Gyre Activity Guide
Gyre Educator Guide
Gyre Field Trip Sheet K-6
Gyre Field Trip Sheet 7-12