2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award Pubic Voting Activity for Students

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.  

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 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)

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 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 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) 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)

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE BALLOT for the 2024 Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award. Share your opinion.