The Everything Kids' Environment Book
The Everything Kids' Environment Book

Author: Sheri Amsel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1605502456

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You Can Help Our Earth Live Longer! Everything we do has an impact on the world around us--from the clothes we wear and food we eat to the gardens we grow and the trash we throw away. And to take the best care of the earth--and ourselves--it's important to make smart choices. With The Everything Kids' Environment Book, you'll find out what you can do every day to help protect our planet. You'll also learn why the rainforest is so important to us, how animals go extinct, and what environmentalists can tell us about taking good care of our world. Learn how to "go green" and to: Find new uses for recycled grocery bags. Create your own greenhouse. Make acid rain--safely!--to see how it affect plants. Test organic food against foods grown with chemicals. Make your own compost pile. Re-create deforestation with the soil from timbered trees. Test your sensitivity to noise. Whether you are in the classroom, surfing the Internet, or just hanging out with your friends, you can make a difference. Start today--so our Earth can live another 4.5 billion years!

A People's Curriculum for the Earth
A People's Curriculum for the Earth

Author: Bill Bigelow

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Published: 2014-11-14

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0942961579

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A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution—as well as on people who are working to make things better. A People’s Curriculum for the Earth has the breadth and depth ofRethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World, one of the most popular books we’ve published. At a time when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what’s wrong and imagine solutions. Praise for A People's Curriculum for the Earth "To really confront the climate crisis, we need to think differently, build differently, and teach differently. A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is an educator’s toolkit for our times." — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate "This volume is a marvelous example of justice in ALL facets of our lives—civil, social, educational, economic, and yes, environmental. Bravo to the Rethinking Schools team for pulling this collection together and making us think more holistically about what we mean when we talk about justice." — Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Bigelow and Swinehart have created a critical resource for today’s young people about humanity’s responsibility for the Earth. This book can engender the shift in perspective so needed at this point on the clock of the universe." — Gregory Smith, Professor of Education, Lewis & Clark College, co-author with David Sobel of Place- and Community-based Education in Schools

This Little Environmentalist
This Little Environmentalist

Author: Joan Holub

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1534475591

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Learn all about big leaders who love and protect the Earth in this engaging and inspiring board book perfect for environmentalists-in-training! Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who help protect and take care of our Earth! Highlighting ten memorable environmentalists who paved the way, parents and little ones alike will love this discovery primer full of fun, age-appropriate facts and bold illustrations.

Zero to Hero Nutrition: How to Actually Get Kids to Eat Healthy Food!
Zero to Hero Nutrition: How to Actually Get Kids to Eat Healthy Food!

Author: Christina Kamp

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781521565063

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Do you wish your kids ate healthier foods? Are you worried about them growing up healthy? Are you overwhelmed and need more hours in a day? Do you wish you could make healthy food delicious, but you don't know how? You can do it. It's not as hard as you think. Zero to Hero Nutrition: How to Actually Get Kids to Eat Healthy Food will show you how to transition your family's diet in manageable steps. Seventeen years ago, Christina Kamp was always sick, always tired, and always having allergic reactions. She found out it was food that was making her sick. She had a packaged ramen noodle and McDonald's lifestyle and it was killing her family! She learned how to change her family's habits to give them long lasting health and energy and she can help you do it too! It's all about making small changes and adding to them. You can have more energy to keep up with your kids, they will have fewer behavior problems, and everyone's moods will be better too. Using her 23 years of experience in preparing healthy food for kids, Christina has written an e-book to help you go from a nutrition zero to a nutrition hero one step at a time using her menus, shopping lists and cooking instructions. The book includes meal plans, recipes, and everything you need to be successful in changing your family's diet along with information about why you need to make the changes. You can feed your kids healthy food without going broke or spending 24 hours a day in the kitchen. Pick up your copy of Zero to Hero Nutrition: How to Actually Get Kids to Eat Healthy Food today and find out how to bring more nutrition to your family and be a nutrition hero for them and you!What do readers think of the book? "The amount of content in this book is overwhelming! In a good way! Christina goes into so much detail on everything; the what, the why, and the how are all completely covered. Such a great resource!And honestly, forget about this book being just for kids! Anyone who wants to eat well could benefit from this book! The section about hiding veggies has me rushing out for spinach to add to basically everything my son eats! Ha! He used to love a wide variety of fruits and veggies, but just like many other toddlers, he has now resorted to only wanting a few things. However, little does he know that all the fruits and veggies he used to love are making a comeback :-DEven though I've been "clean eating" for a long time, I still learned a lot from this book and would highly recommend it to absolutely everyone!" -Victoria in Texas

A Child's Introduction to the Environment
A Child's Introduction to the Environment

Author: Michael Driscoll

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0762499478

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Explore the water, land, and air around us with this entertaining and informative look at our magnificent planet—and learn how your experiments, activities, and everyday actions can help save the environment. This book looks at the wide variety of ecosystems and environmental regions of the Earth, from deserts and forests, to cities and farms, to oceans and ice caps, as well as the atmosphere, weather, energy sources, plants, and animals of each area. Michael Driscoll and professor of meteorology Dennis Driscoll explain the changes to our planet that are currently taking place, including rising temperatures and sea levels, and the effects they can have on our environment. They also profile young environmental activists like Greta Thunberg and Isra Hirsi, and highlight important, everyday actions such as water conversion and recycling that kids can do on their own or with their parents. Also included are fun projects and experiments to do at home like brewing sun tea, creating lightning, and making a smog detector. Packed with facts, experiments, and a removable poster with tips on how to save the planet, this comprehensive guide will inspire kids and their families to think about our planet in new ways and help keep it beautiful and healthy for years to come.

Ambitious Science Teaching
Ambitious Science Teaching

Author: Mark Windschitl

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2020-08-05

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1682531643

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2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discussion of each practice includes tools and routines that teachers can use to support students’ participation, transcripts of actual student-teacher dialogue and descriptions of teachers’ thinking as it unfolds, and examples of student work. The book also provides explicit guidance for “opportunity to learn” strategies that can help scaffold the participation of diverse students. Since the success of these practices depends so heavily on discourse among students, Ambitious Science Teaching includes chapters on productive classroom talk. Science-specific skills such as modeling and scientific argument are also covered. Drawing on the emerging research on core teaching practices and their extensive work with preservice and in-service teachers, Ambitious Science Teaching presents a coherent and aligned set of resources for educators striving to meet the considerable challenges that have been set for them.

Reusing and Recycling
Reusing and Recycling

Author: Charlotte Guillain

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1484635663

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In this book, children learn about reusing and recycling common household materials including paper, glass, plastic, and metal.

You Are the Earth
You Are the Earth

Author: David

Publisher: Greystone Books

Published: 2012-04-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1926812611

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This lively collection of fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, and dynamic illustrations explains how everything on Earth is connected. Since its original publication, concern for the environment has grown, and although environmental damage has increased, so too have "green" strategies. This new edition reflects these changes, with expanded discussion of environmental issues and new technologies, as well as many more activities. New sidebars offer extra facts, tips, and real-life examples of things other budding ecologists have done to make the world a better place.