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Description

It’s dinnertime at sea, but someone has put plastic on the menu! Can you pick the plankton from the pollution?

Resources

You’ll need
Scissors
Printout of the 'Ocean creature cards' sheet

Instructions

Before you begin
The person leading the activity should use scissors to cut out the fact cards from the 'Ocean creature cards’ sheet.
Clear as much floor space as possible in the space where the activity will take place. This space should be fairly large with few obstacles.
Run the activity
The person leading the activity should choose one person to be a ‘sea creature.’ That person can choose any animal they like so long as it lives in the sea, such as a whale or a dolphin.
The person leading the activity should give the person who is the sea creature a task to do somewhere out of earshot, for example in another room.
While the sea creature is out of the room, the person leading the activity should quietly split the rest of the group in half. One half of the group should be given the cut-out fact cards to put in their pockets. That half of the group are the ‘plastic.’ The other half of the group should be told that they are ‘food.’
Everyone can now come back together again, except for the sea creature.

Make clear that no one should reveal to the sea creature whether they are ‘food’ or whether they are ‘plastic’ until the game begins.

Everyone should spread out around the room and pretend to be swimming under the sea. No one should touch one another, and both the food and the plastic should move in the same way. The person leading the activity should fetch the sea creature and bring them into the game.
The sea creature should move around the room and look for its dinner. When they get close to one of the people moving around the room, the sea creature should reach out and touch them. When a person is touched, they should call out ‘I’m food’ or ‘I’m plastic.’ The sea creature should call out ‘Yum!’ if they are food or ‘Yuck!’ if they are plastic.
If a person who is food is caught, they should sit down and the sea creature should continue moving around the room. If a person who is plastic is caught, they should take out their fact card and read it out loud before sitting down. The sea creature may continue around the room until they have touched three plastics.
When three plastics have been touched by the sea creature, the person leading the activity should choose another sea creature from the people sitting down, remove the three plastic facts that have been read out and restart the game. Those who were food and got eaten may also rejoin the game.
After four rounds, all of the plastic facts should have been read out.

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