This Class Can Save the Planet

by Stacy Tornio, Kristen Brittain (Illustrator)

This Class Can Save the Planet shows students they can have an incredible impact on the environment when they work together. It offers easy ideas kids can implement right away in their own schools and classrooms. This book is perfect for educators and schools because it gives simple, straightforward advice on how to be more sustainable in daily classroom life. It's a perfect book for Earth Day, Earth Month, or any other time of the year to help kids establish good habits. Classrooms are an incredible place for kids to recycle and be more sustainable. This book will show students exactly what they can do to make a difference in their own schools and communities. This Class Can Save the Planet doesn't just talk about how we need to be doing more—it actually gives real, actionable ideas.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Ecology

36 pages, Paperback

Published March 17, 2021

Reviews

[Jasmine from How Useful It Is · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read for my toddler’s nap time. Good advice about reuse and recycle and keep the planet reduce on trash.

Read from kindle unlimited.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

This little book should be in every classroom in every elementary student's hands! Children have big ideas (as evidenced in the material gathered in this book) and they should be encouraged while they're small enough to believe they can make a difference! 'Think globally but act locally' is exactly what this book encourages: easy, and sometimes fun, ideas to work toward making our world a better place physically and socially. Wonderfully illustrated with an eye toward encouraging the child to write down personal ideas in addition to those included.

[Abigail Lydon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title (italicize): This Class Can Save the Planet
Author: Stacey Tornio
Illustrator (if separate from the author): Kristen Brittain
Genre: Fiction
Theme(s): Caring for the Earth as a team.
Opening line/sentence (type directly from text): "The planet needs you, it needs all of us".
Brief Book Summary (2-3 sentences in your own words): This book incorporates a variety of ways that we can all contribute to helping our planet. It is perfect for young children to understand why it is important to recycle and why conserving is important. It is inspirational as well as factual in assisting students understanding of caring for the earth
Response to Two Professional Reviews (3-4 sentences in your own words): The reviewers agree that this book offers real-life steps and actions that students can take away from. It is also noted that the idea of the class working as a team is an important theme for children.
Tell Me Framework (4 sentences in your own words):
Like(s): How it offers actionable ideas.
Dislike(s): none.
Patterns(s): The words "we" and "you"
Puzzle(s): What other ideas can be added to this book?
Consideration of Instructional Application (3-4 sentences in your own words): This book could be used to introduce the idea of recycling and why we recycle. Then collectively as a class, we could discuss what is and is not recyclable. We will then decorate and label our own classroom recycling bins for paper, plastic, and glass.

[Mortisha Cassavetes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful picture book! I loved all the bright and colorful illustrations and an important message to help save the planet. The story follows a class as they receive a letter from another class asking for their help to pass on the word and help by recycling. I highly recommend this book for kids of all ages. I read this book for the #picturethis2022 reading event.

[Shayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very short book that provides concrete ways that students can help save the classroom everyday. I also used the fun facts scattered throughout the story as jumping-off points to learn more about ways to help the planet. We did a follow-up activity of writing 3 ways that they could save the planet and stuck them in envelopes that we constructed the previous week from discarded book pages.

[Cindy Davis- Cindy's Book Corner · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully designed manifesto to encourage readers to help save our planet. Please check out the full review here: https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/thi...

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a Goodreads win book. My grandson starts kindergarten in the fall and this will be a good book for him to share with his classmates. It is very easy to understand and shares things that they can do to help save our planet.

[Kiara McDonald · Rating 2 out of 5]

it’s glitched

Only half of the pages where available to read the others where just white. So made the story unreadable which was sad cause I was hoping to send this book to a classroom