This inspirational, optimistic activity book is packed with imaginative suggestions and fun projects that show how small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference to the environment. This charming, vibrantly illustrated book contains a mixture of write-in activities and step-by-step projects, including a bee-themed wildflower maze, instructions for making seed bombs for pollinators and a search-and-find puzzle featuring rainforest species. Perfect for kids aged 6+.
These innovative puzzles cover eco-topics such as saving water, buying local produce, deforestation and conservation. Children can learn about the big things affecting our planet while completing fun puzzles to get them thinking. Each puzzle has been carefully crafted to fit the themes with tried and tested favourites such as mazes, dot to dots, search and find and spot the puzzle pieces along with some new brain teasers to get the cogs turning. The puzzles are accompanied by facts about our earth, the creatures that live there, the effects that humans are having and what can be done to change things.
These 44 puzzles (with solutions) offer a fun-filled mixture of mazes, crosswords, follow-the-dots, word searches, and other activities that encourage recycling, reuse, and other environmentally sound practices.
Jam packed with cool games, activities, and Earth-Saver tips that teach environmentalism and conservation! Young readers will join Green Brainiacs everywhere as they learn how to take better care of our home planet. Printed with soy ink on 30% recycled content paper. Includes pen made from recycled materials. 6-3/4? wide x 8-1/4? high. Ages 8 to 12.
Activate your students’ interest in environmental issues with these fun physical activities! With 50 Games for Going Green: Physical Activities That Teach Healthy Environmental Concepts, teachers and youth leaders will find easy-to-present games and activities to inspire and educate students about caring for the environment. Authors Carol Scaini and Carolyn Evans have created a range of innovative activities to help students learn the value of reducing, reusing, and recycling and explore concepts of carbon footprint reduction, climate change, and global warming. 50 Games for Going Green includes • warm-up, circuit, and station activities; • physical fitness challenges, relay races, and literacy and drama activities; and • cooperative games. A special Eco-Thoughts feature offers simple take-aways with each activity, giving your students information to think about, discuss, and act on. Easily adaptable for a range of ages, abilities, and skill levels, this collection of activities will help your students get moving, thinking, and working together while learning what they can do to help the environment. 50 Games for Going Green makes learning a truly active experience and gives you creative ways to help students get their daily dose of moderate to vigorous physical activity. The activities can be played in the gym, classroom, or outdoors and require little or no equipment. Many activities repurpose everyday recyclable items for play, such as cards from recycled paper, balls from socks, and bowling pins from plastic bottles. Detailed descriptions and illustrations make it easy to understand how to teach each activity, and the game finder helps you quickly choose the right one for each class. In addition, the book’s easy-to-follow format provides information for each activity on equipment and setup requirements, instructions for play, variations, and safety considerations. Taking an active learning approach to environmental stewardship makes caring for the Earth a tangible, memorable, and fun experience. By encouraging students to get active and go green, 50 Games for Going Green offers a hands-on way for students to contribute to their physical health and improve the health of their environment.
On your mark, get set, go green! Did you know that every person in the United States creates about five pounds of trash a day? Did you know that recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees? Did you know that people in North America use more water than any other people on Earth? If not, then welcome to Ready, Set, Go Green! Environmental awareness is everywhere in the media today. It is a huge concern for many adults, and will soon impact children as well. Ready, Set, Go Green! explains current environmental topics in a way that students will understand. The goal is to increase students' sensitivity and concern about the environment while encouraging them to have fun at the same time. This book is filled with interesting facts and figures, fun activity pages, quick and easy tips, and engaging project ideas.
In the green-conscious world we live in today, parents realize the importance of teaching the lessons of green living, early on. With this book, parents can encourage their children to be ecologically friendly with fun lessons such as: - The three Rs: reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling - Why we should keep the air, oceans, and forests pollution-free - Why organic food is tastierùand betterùfor you - How to protect plants and animals - Earth Day celebrations This is the best book you can get on the subject. Language children can relate to without talking down to them. Today's youth know more about the damage we're doing to the planet than most adults do. They have bigger hearts for the millions of species that we share this planet with. They can relate to this stuff. The information is detailed and exciting...it will challenge them creatively and it will motivate them to make positive changes (as they are likely to adopt several of the ideas).
