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EXPLORE NATURAL RESOURCES!

WITH 25 GREAT PROJECTS

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2 of 2 copies available
2 of 2 copies available

What are natural resources? And why is it important to prevent natural resources from being wasted? Explore Natural Resources! answers these questions. The 25 projects inspire young readers ages 6-9 to have fun while learning why natural resources are important to all living things and how every child can take care of the earth's resources through reducing, reusing, and recycling. Kids will read about national parks and early environmentalists, Earth celebrations, and the science behind renewable and nonrenewable resources. With projects and experiments ranging from making a wind-powered car and creating a solar catcher to calculating their water footprint, children will discover that everything comes from the earth. Projects are easy-to-follow, require little adult supervision, and use commonly found household products, many from the recycling box. Through a mixture of fun facts, trivia, jokes, comics, and hands-on activities, kids will Explore Natural Resources! and gain an appreciation of earth's resources, from its vast oceans to its open skies. Explore Natural Resources! meets common core state standards in language arts for reading informational text and literary nonfiction and is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards. Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.

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    • School Library Journal

      July 1, 2014

      Gr 3-6-This offering in the series is divided into six chapters, each of which describes a natural resource and explains the importance of preventing it from being depleted. Chapters cover air, soil, minerals, water, energy, and conservation. Each section includes words to know, famous people and terms, and several activities (purifying water, growing a crystal), most requiring set-up but a few of which are pencil and paper only. Yasuda effectively taps readers' background knowledge to make concepts seem more familiar ("You've probably seen movies with knights holding up enormous shields to protect themselves. Ozone is like a shield, but it's not made of metal."). Though children likely won't pick this one up on their own due to the black-and-white illustrations and the workbook-like design, savvy teachers will pick up some helpful activities and lesson plans.-Jane Hebert, Glenside Public Library District, Glendale Heights, IL

      Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      May 15, 2014
      Grades 2-4 Twenty-five hands-on activities explore the extraordinarily broad and universally accessible concept of natural resources. Conservation is the guiding theme of the book, and global warming, desertification, and water pollution are explained in careful detail. Yasuda divides natural resources into broad topics including air, water, soil, minerals, and energy, and she emphasizes the importance of renewability. The inception of the national parks system and pioneering environmentalists are mentioned, as well as legislation geared toward curbing environmental degradation. A Then and Now feature highlights, with startling statistics, how our current consumption-minded society differs from people of the past. Words to know, listed in the sidebar of each chapter, are boldface in the text, underscored in the illustrations, and defined in a glossary. Activities follow each chapter and include art projects, experiments, building plans, and challenges. The hands-on nature of the activities, age-appropriate text, and inclusion of high-interest examples and sidebars make this a great primer on a timely topic for the classroom, library, or home bookshelf.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:840
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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