Positives

• The social media component of this challenge will be engaging for teenage students.
  
• The article provides nice images to accompany the text and includes examples of posts from around the world.

• The challenge encourages students to help keep the environment clean.

Additional Prerequisites

• It may be beneficial to explain to students that many plastics are not able to be recycled and that disposable items are primarily made from new materials, not recycled materials.
  

Differentiation

• Teachers can encourage students to participate in the challenge and share their before and after pictures with the class.
• Students can create their own hashtag challenge to encourage their community members to participate in a particular activity related to the environment.
• The teacher could design a campaign for waste management and divide students into teams, with each team having a specific task such as designing the logo, creating a hashtag, and choosing activities.
• Another resource related to the topic is the video Team Marine - Young Voices for the Planet, which highlights a plastic waste reduction project led by teens in California.