Join two students as they explain easy green solutions that will help save the environment, while high school students share ideas about how to make green choices. Includes teaching materials.
Describes how people worldwide are wasting energy and threatening the environment. Also provides information on how to live more sustainably through such activities as recycling, using green sources of energy, car-sharing, and reducing air travel.
Trina, concerned that people are doing things that hurt the Earth, motivates her friends and family to develop a variety of Earth Day projects and to keep the good work going all year long.
Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks
Rosenstock, Barbara
Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
Briefly introduces problems in the environment and the scientists, engineers, and other workers that made careers trying to correct them, highlighting education requirements as well as what each job entails.
The students in Miss Fox's class lead their school in making choices to help keep the planet healthy, such as turning off lights when leaving a room, taking shorter showers, and using cloth bags instead of plastic ones.