EDUCATION
Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics has created an interdisciplinary curriculum guide (grades 7-12 & post-secondary) to accompany their landmark feature. The documentary was screened for delegates at the United Nations Plastic Treaty negotiations in Ottawa earlier this year after having its world premiere at SXSW film festival. Variety’s film critic Owen Gleiberman described Plastic People as “one of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries.” Watch the trailer here.
This education resource contains six lesson plans that teachers in classrooms with grades 7 to 12 can use alongside the film. Each intermediate/secondary lesson can be used as a multi-day unit – but teachers can also choose to use individual activities, discussion prompts, and culminating activities and fold them into their own lesson and unit planning. The post-secondary curriculum contains big ideas and essential questions that can be used to anchor discussions or plan student seminars and assignments.
The curriculum guide was created by Suzanne Methot, an award-winning author, editor and classroom educator who has written non-fiction, YA fiction, textbooks, articles, poetry, and documentary curriculum guides. Suzanne has also created guides for Hot Docs’ Docs for Schools as well as elementary classroom books for Scholastic Canada.
GUIDES
CURRICULUM GUIDE
An interdisciplinary curriculum guide tailored for grades 7-12 and post-secondary learning.
Please provide your name and email address above in order to download the guide.
DISCUSSION GUIDE
A roadmap for community screening events with suggested discussion prompts.
FILM LICENSING
Contact the Plastic People team to license the film for classrooms and campus screenings.
“Plastic People is an urgent, compelling call to action wrapped in a journey through decades of use and waste. It masterfully combines personal stories with scientific exploration, making the invisible menace of microplastics visible.”
– CHRIS JONES
OVERLY HONEST MOVIE REVIEWS
VIDEOS
THE HISTORY OF PLASTIC USE
Just how did we become so reliant on disposable and single-use plastics?
Susan Frienkel explains.
HOW MICROPLASTIC AFFECT HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Learn more about the largest producers of microplastics and how those tiny pieces are making their way into the human body AND the environment.
MEET ACTIVIST DIANE WILSON
Diane Wilson spent decades fighting big chemical companies and working on legislation to combat waste and microplastics in local waterways.
“If you’re looking for a documentary to challenge you, beyond the plain information and presentative nature, look no further than Plastic People.”
– LANE MILLS
GEEK VIBES NATIONS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
STUDIES
- Microplastics have been found in penises for the first time
- Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events
- Fears plastic can make cancer more aggressive
- Microplastics are in human testicles
- New Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled, Including Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
- Microplastics Levels High in Toronto-Caught Fish
- Pets vs. Plastics by EarthDay.org
- Microplastics in Brain Tissue
MICROPLASTICS IN THE NEWS
PLASTIC PEOPLE NEWS
ABOUT PLASTIC PEOPLE
The ground-breaking feature documentary Plastic People investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health. Almost every bit of plastic ever made breaks down into “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in all bodies of water, and mix into the soil, becoming a permanent part of the environment.
Now, leading scientists are finding these particles in our bodies: organs, blood, brain tissue, and even the placentas of new mothers. What is the impact of these invisible invaders on our health? And can anything be done about it?
Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong takes a personal approach by visiting leading scientists around the world and undergoing experiments in her home, on her food, and her body while collaborating with award-winning director Ben Addelman (Discordia, Bombay Calling, Nollywood Babylon, Kivalina v. Exxon) in an urgent call to action for all of us to rethink our relationship with plastic.
Plastic People is a landmark feature documentary that chronicles humanity’s fraught relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health.
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