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2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award Pubic Voting Activity for Students

Students view the following finalist films for the 2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award and vote for their favorite.

 

2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award Public Ballot Lesson Plan
Credit: MY HERO

Click on the images below to view the short ocean conservation finalist films. The Teachers' Guide is designed to create a learning experience around viewing, discussing, and voting on films on the ballot. Although the official Voting Period was May 8 - June 8, 2024, this continues to be a great class activity as your school year ends.  

Teachers' Guide: Using MY HERO International Film Festival Public Ballot in the Classroom

Teachers Guide
Credit: myhero

Students watch the following 5 films. Link to the ballot, which also includes links to the films, is available after the films. 

If You Give a Beach a Bottle
Credit: Max Romey

If You Give a Beach a Bottle was inspired by a picture book, Max Romey heads to a remote beach on Alaska's coastline in search of marine debris. (4:59 minutes runtime)


Save Our Seaweed, Maine Rockweed Forest at Risk
Credit: Brandon Eric Strathmann

Brandon Strathmann is pleased to have just completed directing “SOS Save Our Seaweed, Maine Rockweed Forest at Risk” an animated short for the Center for Ecological Teaching and Learning, an organization dedicated to protecting the seashore in Maine. (3:22 minutes runtime)


Matumbawe
Credit: Anthony Ochieng Onyango

Matumbawe is a story about Khadija the daughter of Dosa Mshega a REEF Ranger who works restoring the coral reefs in the Wasini Channel area in Diani, Kenya. (4:30 minutes runtime)


Our Ocean. Our Future. The Kashia Pomo and Marine Protection Areas
Credit: Kevin White

Our Ocean. Our Future. The Kashia Pomo and Marine Protection Areas is a short film that chronicles how the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians are uniquely positioned through their legacy, traditional practices, and values to be an important partner in the recovery of our coastal resources. (5:50 minutes runtime)


(PLASTIK)
Credit: Philip Rom

(PLASTIK) follows a child who looks through a telescope she made out of a plastic bottle and experiences glimpses of our plastic-polluted future. This short film is made with MeshMinds in association with United Nations Environment Programme to raise awareness and catalyse action to end plastic pollution in South-East Asia. (2:39 minutes runtime)


Organizer created on 5/7/2024 3:53:04 PM by Laura Nietzer

Last edited 6/10/2024 9:35:32 AM by Laura Nietzer

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