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Screenshot from WaterWays: Sharks and Plastic with an image of Dr. Merry Camhi, the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The bottom of the screenshot shows a photograph of a shark and instructs users to tap on the video to learn more about Dr. Merry Camhi’s work with sharks.
Screenshot from WaterWays Sharks and Plastic with an illustration of a shark above the water. Surrounding the shark is a fish skeleton, a plastic bottle, and a feather.
Screenshot from Waterways Sharks and Plastic with an illustrated map of drone markers along the ocean. Text above the map instructs users to drag the drone markers from the box to the water.
Screenshot from WaterWays Sharks and Plastic of an activity with recycling cans above a ship in the ocean.
Screenshot from WaterWays Sharks and Plastic with an activity of plastic in the ocean. Text instructs users to use the stickers and pencil tool to show how they will reform.
Map showing shark movement and plastic pollution data with shark illustration.

WaterWays Sharks and Plastic

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Part of the WaterWays series, Sharks and Plastic is an augmented reality experience that engages students to think like a scientist and learn about a local ecosystem. Kids meet a shark and help understand why they’re vomiting plastic by hypothesizing and observing just how the plastic made it into their stomach. Designed for grades 3 through 5 with funding from the National Institutes of Health, Sharks and Plastic provides 40 minutes of interactive activities and a personalized digital science journal.

What's Included
  • Subscription includes 1 child account under 1 parent account.
  • Personalized digital science journal and an augmented reality experience, accessible by phone or browser using webVR.
  • 40 minutes of interactive activities where students are scientists engaged with water science and water stewardship.
How to Use It
  • Sharks and Plastic works on any laptop, computer, or tablet. The virtual reality part can be accessed as WebVR on any web-enabled device.
  • Kids go through this experience independently reading or using the read-aloud function.
  • Kids will spend a total of approximately 40 minutes observing phenomena, gathering data, answering questions, constructing models, and developing and testing hypotheses.
Why It Works
  • Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards.
  • Piloted with more than 900 children and 40 teachers over two years.
  • Developed in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Hudson River Park, and the Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures.
  • In research funded by the National Institutes of Health, 76% of student respondents agreed that WaterWays helped them see themselves as a scientist.

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