10 Little Rubber Ducks tells their story from production in a factory to 10 of themįalling into the sea during a storm, seeing different oceanic sites, andįinally ding their way to a different location. Scales the spill down to a more 'manageable' ten duckies adrift. Science Friday has a Great Pacific Garbage Patch teacher’s guide Better Lesson and Siemens STEM Day have free downloadable lesson plans and activities.10 Little Rubber Ducks is one of our favorite Eric Carle books, partially due to the colorful, perky illustrations and partially due to the fact that the story is based on an actual cargo ship accident that set 29,000 plasticĭucks, turtles and frogs adrift in the ocean.Eric Carle's version Great for storytime, great for STEM and Earth Day stories, great to read before a beach or neighborhood cleanup project. Back matter includes more about the 1992 shipping container that spilled ducks and other plastic toys into the ocean how trash moves along ocean currents facts about plastic, and how kids can help protect the waters. The message is clear: plastic is choking our oceans. The mixed media artwork is bright and colorful, and creates strong statements with its imagery: hundreds of dots in the ocean look like the shape of a continent, until one realizes that it’s a depiction of the shipping containers that get lost in the sea every year a sea turtle swims underwater, dragging a fishing net wrapped around its neck a spread illustrates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Getting caught in a trash whirlpool, the duck spends years tossed around the ocean, until arriving on a beach shore during an environmental cleanup. As the ducks bobs in the water, it sees pollution all around it: a plastic bag here discarded fishing nets there all creating problems for the animals in the water.

As the duck tells its story, smaller font provides factual information about plastic, its uses, and its the environmental impact. Narrated by one rubber duck, the story is part narrative – the duck’s story – and part nonfiction text. The book is based on a true story that took place in 1992 Ducks Overboard! is about the environmental impact of that accident, and about the pollution crisis facing our oceans.

In 2005, Eric Carle wrote Ten Little Rubber Ducks, a story about a shipping carton that leaked dozens of plastic rubber ducks into the sea, and their adventures after landing in the water. Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans, by Markus Motum, (Sept.

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