Planet Earth: 25 Environmental Projects You Can Build Yourself
Product Description
New Book Helps Kids Understand Critical Issues About Earth and Our Environment
NORWICH, VT—Environmental awareness needs to begin in childhood, and Planet Earth: 25 Environmental Projects You Can Build Yourself by Kathleen M. Reilly encourages children to learn about ecology and ecosystems to begin conservation early in their lives. Children ages 9 and up investigate the natural world while getting their hands dirty and actively connecting with the environment.
Young readers explore key issues such as wind and solar power, pollution, endangered species, global warming, and recycling, with action they can take to help the planet along the way. If children understand and appreciate the planet they live on they will feel invested in its future. Using common household products and requiring minimal adult supervision, kids will:
- Construct a worm composting castle
- Build a wind-powered bubble machine
- Create a gardening project that illustrates the burden of overpopulation
Each project includes detailed step-by-step instructions, illustrations and diagrams, and templates. Historical facts, fascinating trivia and anecdotes, and engaging illustrations support the text and projects, offering kids and adults alike a fun, hands-on way to develop respect for and learn to protect our unique planet Earth.
Paperback, 8” x 10”, 128 pages, black and white, 100 illustrations