Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids

by Hall, Julie

• ISBN13: 9780615155852
• ISBN10: 0615155855
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc

Summary

This book is suitable for ages 9 years and over. Children, parents, and teachers will find the very latest information about the causes and effects of climate change, how people are working to reduce it, and ways children and their families and schools can join the fight. The book teaches and inspires through clear and accessible writing, engaging illustrations, hands-on activities, cool and hot facts, eco-hero features, and a hopeful and empowering message to get kids involved in confronting global warming and developing their best selves through such work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Calling Cool Kids	p. 6
Calling Cool Parents	p. 7
Calling Cool Teachers	p. 8
What Is Climate Change?	p. 10
Defining Climate Change	p. 10
What Is Climate?	p. 11
Climate and Environment	p. 13
Earth's Climate	p. 14
How Scientists Study Climate	p. 14
Human-Made Climate Change	p. 15
Chapter 1 action
What Is the Climate Where You Live?	p. 11
Heavy Water	p. 13
The Goldilocks Planet	p. 15
How Climate Change Is Changing Our World	p. 16
The Weather Is Changing	p. 16
Life Is Changing	p. 20
Mass Extinctions	p. 25
How Fast Is Climate Change Happening?	p. 26
Chapter 2 action
Flood Watch	p. 17
The Scoop on Soil	p. 18
Storm Chart	p. 19
Dino Time/Human Time	p. 21
Avoiding the Fate of the Dinosaurs	p. 23
Learn How to Help Endangered Species	p. 23
Signs of Spring	p. 26
The Causes of Climate Change: Our World out of Balance	p. 27
Too Much Greenhouse Gas in Our Atmosphere	p. 27
Too Much Fossil Fuel	p. 30
Too Many People	p. 31
Too Much Electricity Use	p. 32
Too Much Stuff	p. 33
Too Much Driving	p. 34
Industrial Farms	p. 35
Too Much Meat	p. 35
Rainforest Deforestation	p. 36
Laws That Don't Protect the Environment	p. 38
Climate Change Isn't the Only Problem	p. 39
Chapter 3 action
Greenhouse Effect	p. 28
Carbon Monoxide Versus Dioxide	p. 29
Analyze This Quote	p. 31
Tune in and Turn off	p. 33
Animal Simplicity	p. 33
Park It	p. 34
Locating the World's Tropical Rainforests	p. 36
Learn How to Help Preserve Tropical Rainforests	p. 37
U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement	p. 38
Lose the Plastic!	p. 41
How People Can Stop Climate Change	p. 43
Use Renewable Energy	p. 43
Change the Way We Live	p. 46
Chapter 4 action
Sign Up for Green Energy	p. 45
Analyze This Quote	p. 46
Unplug the Energy Hogs!	p. 51
Be an Energy Hog Buster!	p. 51
What People Are Already Doing to Fight Climate Change	p. 52
Ashton Hayes Goes Carbon Neutral	p. 52
Roots & Shoots Grows Young Environmentalists	p. 54
Climate Change Action Projects	p. 55
Chapter 5 action
Analyze This Quote	p. 53
Sign Up for Focus the Nation	p. 57
Read "Warning to Humanity"	p. 59
How You Can Help Fight Climate Change	p. 60
Change Your Thinking	p. 61
Identify Your Strengths	p. 62
Change Your Life: What You and Your Family Can Do	p. 64
Think Bigger	p. 70
Chapter 6 action
Replace Fear with Solutions	p. 61
Give More, Take Less	p. 62
What Are Your Strengths?	p. 63
Analyze This Quote	p. 64
Junk Your Junk Mail	p. 65
Waste Not	p. 67
Help Gorillas by Recycling Old Cell Phones	p. 67
Turn on, Turn off	p. 69
Go Green at Home	p. 70
Get Started!	p. 72
You Can Do It!	p. 73
Chapter 7 action
Your Next Steps	p. 73
Terms	p. 74
Resources	p. 76
Sources	p. 77
Acknowledgments	p. 81
Photo Credits	p. 82
Index	p. 84
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