
By Canyon, Nolan, and Amelia
The Issue: Dolphins, fish, seabirds, and other animals are getting hurt by all the plastic used by humans. They're getting tangled in plastic fishing nets and choking on plastic bags and other trash.


Canyon | Age 9
Favorite plant or animal: Tulips and dogs
Favorite book: Calvin and Hobbes
Favorite ice cream flavor: Cookies and Cream Ice Cream
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Go on iPad; play with my cousins
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Blue whale and the Butterfly exhibition
What you like most about science: Learning about science is very fun and there are many cool subjects like astronomy, geology, and marine biology.
Advice to kids who think science is boring: Science is everywhere. If you learn about science, the more you understand the world around you. Science can be fun, if you learn it with a smile :)

Nolan | Age 10
Favorite plant or animal: A living stone plant. I like the thrasher shark because it can kill its prey with its tail. I like the basking shark because they have such a big mouth and only use it to eat tiny plankton. I like the sabertooth tiger because they have teeth bigger than a megaladon.
Favorite book: Auggie and MeDave at Night
Favorite ice cream flavor: Cotton candy
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Baseball, tennis, surfing, reading, saxophone
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Giant blue whale
What you like most about science: One of my favorite things in science is when something in nature looks like someone actually made it. I also find glass fascinating because it's always "moving."
Advice to kids who think science is boring: Science isn't just taking recordings over time, or learning the planets or learning strange words, it's much more important and exciting than that.

Amelia | Age 10
Favorite plant or animal: Venice fly trap and horses
Favorite book: Night John
Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate and chocolate chip mint
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Spend time with my mom
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Discovery Room
What you like most about science: I like when I learn more about animals and dissecting animals.
Advice to kids who think science is boring: To maybe listen and maybe you will learn about something. And if there is an actual problem you can use what you have learned and solve the problem.
Image Credits:
glitter microplastics, CC0 Public Domain via pexhere
plastic straws, www.quotecatalog.com.
Sound Credits
news jingle, DDmyzik via freesound.org, CC BY-NC 3.0
underwater sounds, carmsie via freesound.org, CC BY-NC 3.0
seagull on beach, squashy555 via freesound.org, CC0
enlargement sound, renatalmar via freesound.org, CC0
eating, deadage via freesound.org, CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication