• Honorbale Mention—Bologna Ragazzi Award • A valuable, middle-grade resource to help kids learn about the effects of waterborne plastics and how they are affecting our world’s oceans and the planet itself. • Combines science, activism, and art into a multifaceted and highly comprehensive book ideal for school and home libraries. • Pêgo’s approach is positive and practical, inspiring readers to not only learn about the problem, but to also become part of the solution. • Critiques current “solutions” to the plastics crisis, such as recycling, and offers better, more informed solutions, which kids and adults can try at home. • A fun “field guide” shares how to identify plastics as an invasive species: how to categorize it, collect it, and safely move it elsewhere. • Includes colorful images of plastics found “in the wild” in locations around the world.

LEVELING

Guided Reading Level: W

Common Core State Standards W.6.1,2,3,4,8,9,9b,10 RI.6.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 L.6.3,4,4a,4b,4d,5,5a,5b,5c,6 SL.6.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6

Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS1-From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes MS-LS2-Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics MS-LS4-Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity MS-ETS1-Engineering Design MS-ESS3-Earth and Human Activity MS-ESS2-Earth's Systems MS-PS1-Matter and its Interactions MS-PS2-Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

© 2022 Greystone Kids (Luisterboek): 9781778400360
© 2020 Greystone Kids (Ebook): 9781771646444

Publicatiedatum

Luisterboek: 8 juni 2022
Ebook: 7 september 2020