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  1. In this article, we present an inquiry unit for fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms designed to build students’ understanding of trash pollution, discover its environmental effects, and communicate how people in their community can reduce those effects. It was created as a collaboration between a team of fourth-grade teachers and an ecology research laboratory at a local university. This series of lessons was designed to integrate the use of articles, websites, data charts, and videos into a framework for students to develop scientific research and communication skills, using trash pollution as the anchoring theme. The unit culminates in students using their research to create a public service announcement to report pollution findings and possible solutions that could be shared with other students and the community. 
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