What A Waste: Rubbish, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet (Protect the Planet)

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What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet

The book also addresses ways that we can help the Earth by carpooling, recycling, limiting water and light use, protecting the ocean and our forests. Students will learn through a sequence of illustrations and text boxes how they can make an impact on the planet. The site of ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ in the north Pacific Ocean contains plastic rubbish that weighs as much as 500 jumbo jets. Overall this book is important to be used in elementary grades because it can create awareness on saving the world that students live in. The environment, and earth science is a big topic of this book, and it would make for a great lesson in that subject area.The book "What a Waste" is a nonfiction informational text about the effect waste has on our planet. I would use this book as a content coursebook in science where students are learning about the environment. Taking small steps of change can encourage students to do even more when wanting to keep our planet/environment healthy for the endurable future.

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What a waste’ is another visually outstanding DK information book which presents current environmental concerns and shows how people are developing solutions, giving hope for the future. The author starts the book by telling the reader that humans are creating more waste than ever and challenges the reader by saying the power is in our hands to make a difference. It opens up the world of recycling for children and how they can make improvements, it also has many great inferences about the environment whilst also teaching the children about how our actions affect the planet, good and bad.I especially like the illustrations combined with real life photographs in the story because that gives students the chance to relate drawings with things that are happening in real life. This book is a valuable resource for young readers looking to understand the impact of human activity on the planet. I think that the bright illustrations and the informational facts will definitely appeal to this age group!