Text Set

Environmental Education

For Kids: One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

by Jean Craighead George
Age level: 6-10 years old
This book is a part of a series called One Day in the and in
this particular book we meet a young Venezuelan boy named
Tepui. Tepui is helping a team of natural scientists find an
unkown butterfly species to save the rain forest from being
chopped down. This book gives us an insighted to why we are
cutting down the rain forest and the impact this has on the
environment, especially on the ones that are directly affected by
this.
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407205.One_Day_in_the_Tropical_Rain_Forest

For Kids: Where Once There Was a Wood

by Denise Fleming
Age level: 4-8 years old
Animals used to have all the space in the world to move
around and create their homes, but after the humans
decided to build houses. humans are ruining it and they
dont have anywhere to live. suplimentary materials with
detailed suggestions to what you can do to help

Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668582.Where_Once_There_Was_a_Wood

For Kids: A Plastic Bottles Journey

by Suzanne Slade
Age level: 6-8 years old
Have you ever wondered what happens to your bottle
after you throw it in the recycling bin? This books
explains the entire process of how bottles and plastics
are recycled, everything from tiny pellets melting into a
plastic goo to someone picking it up in the store. At the
very end there is a graphic organizer of the bottles
journey (as a summary of what is told in the book) and on
the two last pages you can find a glossary,
supplementary texts on recycling and an index so that
you can go back and find the information you are looking
for.
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10220076-a-plastic-bottle-s-journey

For Kids: The Three Rs: Reuse, Reduce,

Recycle by Nrica Roca
Age level: 3-6 years old
This book helps children to think about different ways to help
our environment. Not only should we recycle, but we should
also reuse and reduce to decrease the amount of waste. The
book gives ideas about what you can do in school as well as at
home. Some of the ideas are more general, but there are also
specific things like making sure the faucet is not leaking and
bringing you own bags when you go shopping. Finally, the
books give some ideas for experiments, activities, recipes etc.
that are fun for children and helps save the environment!
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967341.The_Three_R_s

For Kids: Clean Planet: Stopping Litter and

Pollution byt Tristan Boyer Binns
Age level: 8-10 years old
This book focuses on what happens when we dont take care
of our planet. There are different kinds of pollution, some are
easy to see, like litter and smoke, but other types of pollution
can be harder to see, for example if our drinking water is
polluted. While clarifying the impact pollution has on the earth
and us humans, it also gives ideas on how to decrease the
amount of pollution. At the very end there are some extra facts,
supplementary readings, a glossary and an index.
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1878876.Clean_Planet

For Kids: Charlie and Lola: We Are Extremely

Very Good Recyclers by Lauren Child
Age level: 3-5 years old
Why throw your old things away when there are plenty of
people out there in the world that could make good use of
it? Lola discovers that there is a recycling competition and
she asks her class to join her. If they can recycle one
hundred plastic, metal and paper items they will get a
chance to plant their own tree. At the end of the book there
are some recycling tips as well as a poster where kids can
keep track of their recycling.
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6319488-charlie-and-lola

For Kids: Our Footprints on Earth

by Jeanne Sturm
Age level: 8+ years old
This book covers most of the impacts we human have on planet
earth. Everything from fossil fuels to deforestation of the rain
forest and dangerous pesticides. The book is very informational
and is excellent to use as a resource while working on either
different types of energy, recycling, water waste etc. The
illustrations are also very fitting to the different topics and make
this book visually appealing and interesting.
Link to Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7757275-our-footprint-on-earth

For Kids: Website - Environmental Education

for Kids Online
This website lets young children work on a important topic in
a fun and exciting way. It is designed to be engaging and
interactive in order for children to learn about their role of
taking care of planet earth. There are two main activities on
this website. One activity lets you create your own creature
and help it overcome different environmental issues. The
other activity lets children make a simulation of their own
home and highlights how the decisions they make at home
affects the environment, and therefore also our future.
Link to website:
http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/

For Kids: Poem - Peace by Piece

by Celia Barrell
This poem does not only tell us that the world can
be healed if we all work together, it also does a
play on words by substituting the word piece for
peace. It is a very short poem, but it also shows
the importance of working together to achieve
something that is beneficial for us all.

This website has a lot of environmental poems by

Celia Barrell:
http://www.sciencerhymes.com.au/environmental-poetry

For Kids: Website - Global Warming Effects around the

World by Union of Concerned Scientists
This website has an interactive map where students
can click on different labels and learn how global
warming is affecting a certain area. The labels are
color coded, which means that the student can
choose if they want to look at environmental issues
regarding people, freshwater, oceans, ecosystems or
temperature. If you continue to explore the website
you will also see that there is information about the
impacts global warming has on all the mentioned
categories and some solutions to our problems.
Link to website:
http://www.climatehotmap.org/

For Adults: Greenpeace website

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environment
organization. They are active in countries all over the world
and their website offers information about environmental
issues where you are and in other parts of the world. This
website is not only informative about issues, it also gives you
the opportunity to take action, volunteer and read about what
they do to make this world a better place to live. Right now
you can read about how they trying to save the arctic, stop
global warming, protect the oceans and forests and protect
the agriculture.
Link to website:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/

For Adults: An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore

In this video, Al Gore takes us on a journey on how the climate
changes will affect our planet. There is a lot of evidence of
temperatures rising all over the world. Al Gore and his team
explain why this is happening, what the effects could/most likely
will be, and what we can do to prevent this from happening. It is
a very powerful video with a lot of hard facts that might go over
the head of some younger students, and therefore it is more
appropriate for older students/adults.
Link to full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLG-tcMvyg