People are always changing their environment. Farmers use the land to grow crops and raise animals. People cut down trees and build roads. Many people live in big buildings in cities. We must take care of the earth and protect our environment. Colorful images, supporting text, a glossary, table of contents, and index all work together to help readers better understand the content and be fully engaged from cover to cover. This 6-pack includes 6 copies of this title and a lesson plan.
American Indian tradition is a rich and important part of American culture! Many great American Indian leaders work to preserve their history and culture, and this 6-pack of nonfiction readers will teach third grade students about the American Indian changemakers of today. American Indian Leaders Today 6-Pack • Explains the important work of American Indian leaders and their interactions with government • Provides a short fiction piece related to the topic to keep students interested • Describes both the traditions and struggles of various American Indian Nations • Explores important themes such as fairness and leadership • Includes a glossary, interactive discussion questions, and a “Civics in Action” activity to show how individuals can work with government to make change • Offers a detailed lesson plan that will facilitate implementation of activities The American Indian leaders of today work hard to preserve their ways of life and teach the leaders of tomorrow. This teacher-approved 6-pack of books provides an illustrated fiction story, index, vibrant images, and other useful features to deliver an exciting explanation of modern American Indian communities and leaders. This 6-pack includes six copies of this title and a content-area focused lesson plan.
Some of our first encounters with math come through shapes. Geometry skills are learned from an early age, and readers build upon those first geometry lessons with topics like describing objects using the names of shapes, identifying both two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, and composing shapes. Readers are able to explore these essential concepts independently through accessible text and colorful images of both new and familiar shapes. A school setting provides the backdrop for identifying basic shapes in a familiar context. Written to reflect the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this volume adheres to standard K.G.A.1. This book should be paired with "Shapes at the Store" (9781477719732) from the InfoMax Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
Considering the detrimental environmental impact of current food systems, and the concerns raised about their sustainability, there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental impacts. These diets also need to be socio-culturally acceptable and economically accessible for all. Acknowledging the existence of diverging views on the concepts of sustainable diets and healthy diets, countries have requested guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on what constitutes sustainable healthy diets. These guiding principles take a holistic approach to diets; they consider international nutrition recommendations; the environmental cost of food production and consumption; and the adaptability to local social, cultural and economic contexts. This publication aims to support the efforts of countries as they work to transform food systems to deliver on sustainable healthy diets, contributing to the achievement of the SDGs at country level, especially Goals 1 (No Poverty), 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 13 (Climate Action).
Where does our food come from? Whose hands have planted, cultivated, picked, packed, processed, transported, scanned, sold, sliced, and cooked it? What production practices have transformed it from seed to fruit, from fresh to processed form? Who decides what is grown and how? What are the effects of those decisions on our health and the health of the planet? Tangled Routes tackles these fascinating questions and demystifies globalization by tracing the long journey of a corporate tomato from a Mexican field to a Canadian fast-food restaurant. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationships between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. A globalization-from-above perspective is reflected in the corporate agendas of a Mexican agribusiness, the U.S.-based McDonald's chain, and Canadian-based Loblaws supermarkets. The women workers on the front line of these businesses offer a humanized globalization-from-below perspective, while yet another "globalization" is revealed through examples of resistance and local alternatives. This revised and updated edition highlights developments since the turn of the millennium, in particular the deepening economic integration of the NAFTA countries as well as the growing questioning of NAFTA's consequences and the crafting of alternatives built on foundations of sustainability and justice.
Do you stand in that trial room of a fashion clothing store, looking at a pic of a model in a poster telling yourself, “Gosh! I wish I had that body!”? Or are you that person who wakes up every morning, gung-ho about going for your workouts and then just can’t go for it? Or are you that person who tells yourself, “I can’t do this” Or are you confused on how to begin? Or are you someone, who makes a New Year's resolution to get fit and drops out after a while? Don’t get bogged down. This book is meant just for you because the pre-requisite of getting fit and leading a healthy lifestyle has got nothing to do with what you do, but it’s got everything to do with what’s in your mind. In this book, you will go through the FOUR STAGES to a complete health transformation and help you formulate your own fitness blueprint to easily make fitness a part of the minutiae of your everyday life. The 4 stages are - Stage 1: Setting your Identity Blueprint-that will help you get the right mindset in place. Stage 2: Lock-n-load your mental arsenal–that will give you tools to keep you mentally fit. Stage 3: Unlock Yourself-here you will get to know how to take charge of your life by gaining control of your excuses, habits, and dreams. Stage 4: Get down to brass tacks – this is the real deal to get you physically fit. As there is a frantic rush to get fit by ‘sporting six-pack abs’ this book nudges that notion aside and focuses on the long-term benefits of having the right mindset and consciously working towards a healthy lifestyle.
This volume examines the applicability of central place theory in contemporary archaeological practice and thought in light of ongoing developments in landscape archaeology, by bringing together ‘central places’ and ‘un-central landscapes’ and by grasping diachronically the complex relation between town and country, as shaped by political economies and the availability of natural resources. Moving away from model-bounded approaches, central place theory is used more flexibly to include all the places that may have functioned as loci of economic or ideological centrality (even in a local context) in the past. Fourteen chapters examine centrality and un-central landscapes from Prehistory to the late Middle Ages in different geographical contexts, from Cyprus and the Levant, through Greece and the Balkans to Italy, France, and Germany.
