The Environment Explore, create and investigate!

by Litton, Jonathan; Morgan, Paulina

• ISBN13: 9780711250529
• ISBN10: 0711250529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-09-22
• Publisher: words & pictures

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jonathan Litton has written numerous children's books in prose and verse. He loves using his science background to write about sea creatures, space, and saving the planet, but is also fond of penning stories about pirates, princesses, and picnics.

Paulina Morgan works as an independent illustrator based in Santiago de Chile. She studied design before moving to Barcelona, Spain, to obtain her master's degree in Art Direction. She worked in advertising before deciding to pursue her passion for illustration.

Table of Contents

What is the environment?
Wise words
What is the environment?
Homes and habitats
Endangered species
Garden biodiversity
Make your own microhabitats
Trees and bees
Special species

Is Earth in safe hands?
People and the planet
In safe hands?
Wonderful woodland
How to plant a tree
What is carbon dioxide?
Greenhouse gases and global warming
Make a mini greenhouse
Rising sea levels
The ozone layer
An oily experiment

Reduce, reuse, recycle
What a load of rubbish!
Problem plastic
A vertical garden
Drip, drip, drip
Tread carefully
Going places
Fashion and pollution
A solar oven
 
Local and global
Zero-mile meal
Bedroom forest
Creating compost
Local and global action
A working windmill
Model home
A living river
 
Templates
Glossary
Index