Resources
Resources
Educational Materials and Products
Microplastics and Me brochure providing an overview of microplastics and what LOMP is working on. Accessible text transcript.
What Can Frogs Teach Us About Human Health? Infographic about how and why scientists use Xenopus laevis frogs to learn about immune system development and how studying microplastics pollution and immune system development can help us protect the health of both humans and frogs. Additional Resources
Activity Guides
Sand Sieving In this activity, participants will analyze sand samples from their community for microplastics and consider how plastic enters their local environment.
Plastic Mosaics In this activity, participants will create mosaics with plastic waste from their community to illustrate the connection between plastic in the environment and everyday plastic waste.
Meet the Plastics of LOMP!
LOMP researchers are studying many different kinds of plastics. These fact sheets about some of the polymers that LOMP is studying provide information about how those plastics are made, what they are used for, plastic production, waste, and recycling, and how and why LOMP researchers are studying them.
Research Summaries
Short, common-language summaries of ongoing LOMP research!
Microplastics and the Immune System
Additional Resources
Other relevant resources
External link: Spotter’s Guide to Plastic Pollution - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
Create Your Own Field Guide to Microplastics – Broken Plastics
The Problem with Microplastics (high school lesson plan and set of interactive activities for community audiences) – Life Sciences Learning Center