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Earth Book for Kids: Activities to Help Heal the Environment

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Linda Schwarz, along with her illustrator Beverly Armstrong, has written an activity book for children on how to care for the earth. In simple format, she defines the basic terms and ideas used in environmental study. She then offers a number of activities for understanding these concepts. For example, she describes acid rain, then gives instructions for a project to measure the amount of acid in your own rainfall. This is a useful idea book for children's rainy day or school projects from about third grade on. In fact, this would be a handy reference book any of us could use for quick definitions and helpful illustrations. It could help us better make our points in conversations and community discussions about environmental problems and what we can do about them. (Originally reviewed in The Auroran)

This is a wonderful book for teachers to have for elementary age children when having a unit on Earth Day or celebrating Earth Day. Mainly it allows many different ways that children can help save the Earth. There are several sections of the book: Energy, resources, and recycling; Air, Land, & Water; Plant & Animal Habitat; and More Ways to Make Every Day Earth Day. Each of these sections provides simple facts and information while providing ways for children to help out or be actively involved in each particular topic. At the end of the book, there is a section called Where to Write & Glossary which provides a page on how to request for information and also provides many different resources/organizations that children can write to to obtain more information. I would definitely recommend this book for teachers to use for Earth Day units but also for children to read from if they are interested in helping save the Earth.

I was looking for a book to help get my children aware of our environmental problems, and help me teach them in a fun and exciting way! THIS IS IT! Easy workbook style. Easy Read, Fun projects that can be adapted to children of different ages! If you are teacher of young children, this book is a must! Help the young learn now and they will grow up into the next generation that will protect our earth! This book will definitely show children how they can start solving environmental problems right now!

Prompt delivery and excellent condition. The child may be willing to read it through.

I am teaching a class about the environment at a summer enrichment program and I bought this book to use as a classroom resource and to get some project ideas. I bought a few environment books for kids and this is definitely one of the best. Fir example, it it much better than "365 Ways to Live Green for Kids". This book is divided into five main sections: Energy, Resources and Recycling; Air, Land and Water; Plant and Animal Habitats; More Ways to Make Every Day Earth Day (which includes even more environmentally friendly projects); and Where to Write & Glossary (which includes resourced and places you can write to get more information). Most of the activities included in this book are targeted for kids 3rd grade and up, but there are also more than a few things you can use for kids as young as kindergarten or 1st grade. There are great tips for helping the environment and also ways to make things from recycled materials. The book is also really good at explaining how things work like the water cycle and wind and solar energy. One con about the book is that it was published in 1990 and needs an update. Many of the facts and figures about how much trash we accumulate or how many animals are endangered are no longer correct. Overall, though, I highly recommend this book for teachers and parents who want to make their children more environmentally-aware.