MY FIRST GREEN BOOK

by Angela Wilkes

This is a practical book with a serious message - how to help protect our planet and its environment. Children can learn about environmental issues through activities that include creating a wildlife garden and performing simple tests to measure air pollution and acid rain. Everything you will need is shown life-size for easy checking. Clear explanations of environmental issues. Step-by-step photographs throughout. Simple, easy-to-follow instructions for projects and experiments

Genres: Science

48 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 1999

Reviews

[Eugenie · Rating 4 out of 5]

NY, DK Publishing, 1996
This is an informational DK book. Even though it is an older publication, it covers many practical topics on caring for our environment. It has real pictures of plants and items to be used in experiments. There are detailed experiments children can do to check on the cleanliness of water, testing soils, the effects trees have on the environment to name a few. These could be done in a supervised classroom for inclusion in a unit on ecology. The topics included make great classroom discussions. It would be a good book to use in teaching about informational text; there is a large variety of text features. The large size is easy to navigate and the real-life explanations are easy to understand.

[Meghan]

This book has multiple projects that you can do, such as how to create a tester for acid rain, how to successfully plant trees, and how to test soil. There are many projects for children to do that are environmentally friendly and can help raise awareness about environmental issues. There is also a section on creating and maintain a green diary/ journal.

[Amanda Schwind]

Recycling