Where do polar bears live? - Sarah L. Thomson | 4-11 | An introduction to global warming through polar bears' life in the Arctic. Also explains why the world is getting warmer, how that is affecting polar bears & what we can do.
Also available as Video & eBook. Teaching resources available. | 40 | |
What's the point of being green? - Jacqui Bailey | 6-17 | Book on current green issues, main focus being climate change. Contains interesting facts, tips & jokes. Covers greenhouse effect, carbon footprint, fossil fuels, alternative energy, transport, trees, food shortages, waste, pollution. | 96 | |
What happens if the rainforests disappear? - Mary Colson | 6-17 | Explains how rainforests help in climate control & how deforestation, mining, drilling for oil, crop plantations & global warming threatens rainforests & people living there. Gives scenarios of how the world would be in years 2050, 2100 & 2200 if rainforest clearing continues. | 32 | |
How carbon footprints work - Nick Hunter | 8-11 | Explains what carbon footprint is, how personal carbon footprint can be calculated & reduced, concepts of carbon trading & offsetting. | 32 | |
Climate change - John Woodward | 8-17 | Details - supported with images - covering everything about climate change including feedbacks, tipping points, natural climate change, our carbon culture, oceanic research, predicting future climates & what scares the scientists.
Also available as eBook. | 72 | |
Gaia warriors - Nicola Davies | 9-16 | Interviews with people of countries affected by climate change and scientists, campaigners, students, business owners & others all over the world doing something to combat climate change. | 192 | |
No one is too small to make a difference - Greta Thunberg | 9+ | A collection of 11 speeches by climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Videos and text of some speeches here. Also available as eBook & audioBook. | 80 | |
How we know what we know about our changing climate - Lynne Cherry, Gary Braasch | 10-14 | Focuses on how scientists have determined that Earth's climate is changing - using migrating birds, phenology, butterflies, tree rings, melting ice, mud & ice cores, computer models - often with the help of students.
Teaching resources available. | 66 | |
A kids' guide to climate change & global warming: How to take action! - Cathryn Berger Kaye | 10+ | Workbook that guides children to investigate, take action & communicate on climate change using their natural talents.
Also available as eBook. | 48 | |
Eyes wide open: Going behind the environmental headlines - Paul Fleischman | 14-18 | Looks into issues like population, consumption, vested interests, denial & capitalism in relation to climate change.
Also available as eBook & audioBook. Teaching resources available. | 208 | |
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