Curated Films for Elementary Students focused on STEAM Heroes
Short Films Recommended for Elementary Students
The Last Straw
By: Lynne Cherry
Nine-year-old Milo Cress is concerned about the millions of straws that pollute waterways, waste fossil-fuel resource and harm ocean creatures. With the help of some friends, he convinces restaurants to “go straw-free”. Milo then takes the fight all the way to Capitol Hill.
Olivia's Birds and the Oil Spill
By: Lynne Cherry
Young Olivia loves birds, and creates over 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon's bird rescue.
MABON ‘The 8 year old activist’
By: Jack Davies
Our world has a serious ocean plastics problem. There are now a higher number of plastics in the ocean than the number of fish.
All the Way to the Ocean
By: Joel Harper
A story about two friends and their discovery of the relationship between our cities' storm drains and the world's oceans, lakes and rivers.
Dian Fossey; A Hero
By: Lora Batchelor Middle School
This is a film about the life and career of Dian Fossey.
The Secret of Trees
By: Albert Maysles
What do trees know that we don't? 13-year-old inventor Aiden set out to find out.
If You Give a Beach a Bottle
By: Max Romey
Inspired by a picture book, Max Romey heads to a remote beach on Alaska's coastline in search of marine debris
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