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The Environment: Explore, create and investigate!
What on Earth? The Environment is a simple first introduction to the environment—the air, soil, water, plants, and animals. How do we as humans slot into the natural world around us and how do our actions affect the environment? What on Earth can we do about it? The book contains three different types of pages: Explore, Investigate, and Create. This structure provides a child-led and hands-on way for children to learn about the world around them. Create pages consist of fun crafts and activities to give children a chance to play and have fun while learning.
64 pages, Hardcover
Published September 22, 2020
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August 26, 2020
EXPLORE. CREATE. INVESTIGATE.
The Environment is a simple first introduction to the environment—the air, soil, water, plants, and animals. This little chapter book teaches all about the natural world and how we make an impact, both good and bad to it. The book contains three different types of pages: Explore, Investigate, and Create. The structure of this little book allows for a very fun and hands on learning experience.
The Environment is a must have in the science classroom for the K-2 grade levels!
I recieved a digital copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The Environment is a simple first introduction to the environment—the air, soil, water, plants, and animals. This little chapter book teaches all about the natural world and how we make an impact, both good and bad to it. The book contains three different types of pages: Explore, Investigate, and Create. The structure of this little book allows for a very fun and hands on learning experience.
The Environment is a must have in the science classroom for the K-2 grade levels!
I recieved a digital copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
August 26, 2020
This cheerfully illustrated title provides a good introduction to the environment for grade school readers. They will learn what the environment is, and then about endangered species, greenhouse gases, how to limit a carbon footprint and more. Children will also be invited to complete projects including making your own microhabitats and making a mini greenhouse. There are also some fun quizzes. This book provides a positive resource that will teach children to respect and preserve the world around them.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review. I highly recommend this engaging and thoughtful title.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review. I highly recommend this engaging and thoughtful title.
September 15, 2020
Everything is part of the environment and this is a lovely exploration of air, weather, pollution, water, plastic, gases, people, plants and animals. It is a great introduction to the environment and looks at how we as humans fit into the environment and what impact we have on it.
The book uses a simple approach and three distinct types of page; Explore, Investigate, Create. Concepts and ideas are explained and teach children about important issues (Explore) and simple and accessible experiments mean children can witness the effects first hand (Investigate, Create). Colour-coded page markers indicate the function of each page and the design and layout of the pages are very appealing to the young reader. Illustrations are simple, clear and relatable, and I particularly like the scenes that tell a story with characters and speech bubbles. Text is often set into small chunks and the use of coloured text boxes really helps break up the volume of text and no page will feel overwhelming for young children. Maps also feature and are again really accessible and clearly colour-coded.
What I really like about this book is that it actively engages the reader. Questions are asked for the reader to think about and there are all manner of experiments and things to do that will help children further understand the environment in which they live. A challenge at the end of the book rounds things off nicely and requires readers to use all the ideas that they have learnt about and create their own eco home. A couple of templates are provided at the back of the book to assist with specific activities and a detailed glossary explains words from ‘atmosphere’ to ‘sustainability'.
There is so much for the reader to do, whether it be trying out any one of the many experiments, matching endangered species to their habitats, writing an environment themed poem or untangling items and their carbon footprints - there is lots of fun to be had and learning to be done through this gem of a book.
Recommended for 6+.
The book uses a simple approach and three distinct types of page; Explore, Investigate, Create. Concepts and ideas are explained and teach children about important issues (Explore) and simple and accessible experiments mean children can witness the effects first hand (Investigate, Create). Colour-coded page markers indicate the function of each page and the design and layout of the pages are very appealing to the young reader. Illustrations are simple, clear and relatable, and I particularly like the scenes that tell a story with characters and speech bubbles. Text is often set into small chunks and the use of coloured text boxes really helps break up the volume of text and no page will feel overwhelming for young children. Maps also feature and are again really accessible and clearly colour-coded.
What I really like about this book is that it actively engages the reader. Questions are asked for the reader to think about and there are all manner of experiments and things to do that will help children further understand the environment in which they live. A challenge at the end of the book rounds things off nicely and requires readers to use all the ideas that they have learnt about and create their own eco home. A couple of templates are provided at the back of the book to assist with specific activities and a detailed glossary explains words from ‘atmosphere’ to ‘sustainability'.
There is so much for the reader to do, whether it be trying out any one of the many experiments, matching endangered species to their habitats, writing an environment themed poem or untangling items and their carbon footprints - there is lots of fun to be had and learning to be done through this gem of a book.
Recommended for 6+.
September 20, 2020
The environment is the most important thing to be taken care of for our survival. And we can see how we are being harmed due to our unwanted activities which are hurting the environment. The only thing we can do to save further harm is to create awareness and take actions accordingly. This awareness needs to be given to future generations, that is the children now. What they see as a kid, is what they will do after growing up. So, we must educate them on how to take care of our environment. And this can be done through our actions.
The Environment By Jonathan Litton.
This is a must-read book for every child. The author has beautifully explained the environment and its elements. He has kept the language very simple. The illustrations are also very nice, clean and clear. What I liked the most about this book is the way he has included small and simple experiments to explain most of the concept. Other than this, there are many small models included which can help prevent different causes of pollution, of which my personal favourite is the "Zero-mile meal". It was a very educational read for me as well.
I recommend this book to every kid and also to those grown-up literates who don't know how their actions may harm the environment. It can be a good read for parents as well, to teach their children about the essential elements of the environment.
Thanks to NetGalley and QED Publishing for the e-ARC of this informative book.
The Environment By Jonathan Litton.
This is a must-read book for every child. The author has beautifully explained the environment and its elements. He has kept the language very simple. The illustrations are also very nice, clean and clear. What I liked the most about this book is the way he has included small and simple experiments to explain most of the concept. Other than this, there are many small models included which can help prevent different causes of pollution, of which my personal favourite is the "Zero-mile meal". It was a very educational read for me as well.
I recommend this book to every kid and also to those grown-up literates who don't know how their actions may harm the environment. It can be a good read for parents as well, to teach their children about the essential elements of the environment.
Thanks to NetGalley and QED Publishing for the e-ARC of this informative book.
August 19, 2020
I got requested for two books by Quarto Publishing Group in NetGalley, and I adored them. So, when I saw that they have a new one, I requested it immediately. Unfortunately, I was not liked as much as I lived the other two.
This book is for the lower age range, I would put it on 7-12 years. There was less text, too and the facts were more ordinary facts than something exciting. So, yes, this book is definitely for children. I know that my 10-year-old self would adore this. There was a lot of crafting projects which were interesting. As a kid, I was obsessed with these types of crafting book.
The drawing style was ok. I wasn’t a fan of the human, but the other draws were solid.
I really recommend this book for a younger age group. There are a lot of facts about our environment, so they can grow up with care for nature. Also, there are a lot of project for them, which also instructive for them.
This book is for the lower age range, I would put it on 7-12 years. There was less text, too and the facts were more ordinary facts than something exciting. So, yes, this book is definitely for children. I know that my 10-year-old self would adore this. There was a lot of crafting projects which were interesting. As a kid, I was obsessed with these types of crafting book.
The drawing style was ok. I wasn’t a fan of the human, but the other draws were solid.
I really recommend this book for a younger age group. There are a lot of facts about our environment, so they can grow up with care for nature. Also, there are a lot of project for them, which also instructive for them.
August 24, 2020
This is a lovely book, beautiful to look at with lovely snippets of information. Perfect for ks1/2 children’s do the school library
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