Pistes d'exploration

Browse the contents, index and bibliography. Discuss how these features will help you use the book.

Read the blurbs on pages 88-89 where the Owl staff describe their “favourite (green) things.” Poll your classmates on their favourite green activities and make a poster in the same style.

Choose a project from the first chapter that involves clothing or jewellery. With classmates, put on a planet-friendly fashion show that features your creations. Include an introduction explaining the importance of repurposing old clothing and items.

Try out one of the projects. Photograph or film the process. Create a multimedia presentation.

Make up your own planet-friendly project. Make a new page for the book, featuring your project.

Make a class list of eco-words and concepts that you already know. Add to the list as you come up with new words. Create a class anchor chart to remember these words and remind you to be green.

Try out one of the projects. Photograph or film the process. Create a multimedia presentation.

Organize a book, toy or clothing swap for your class or school. Prepare signs and labels to outline the exchange processes.

Observe your school environment. Identify a not-so-green situation. Discuss it with your teacher or principal and create a plan to change the situation. Post slogans around the school to remind others to be green.

As a class, take the enviro-quiz on pages 82–83. This will serve as a model for a new and improved quiz you will create after reading.

Try out one of the projects and photograph or video record the process. Create a multimedia presentation.

List not-so-green situations you observe in your school environment. Using information from this text as well as additional research, prepare a quiz that could educate other students and staff. Follow-up as a class and discuss the impact you have had on your environment.

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth

Mots-clés

Non-fiction , ecology , environment , instructions , recycling , sustainable living

Commentaire descriptif

This book is chock full of information and ideas for creating a greener, more sustainable way of life. Whether it’s making a balcony garden, crafty ways to update old clothes or a quiz for testing “Eco-IQ,” there’s an activity in here for all interests. Informational sections such as “Meet Your Eco-Footprint” and “Talk like a Climate-change Expert” discuss ecology-related issues and define language. “Eco All-Stars” highlights activism of other children. Quality photography and illustrations are set in dynamic layouts. Detailed photos teach youngsters how to tune up their own bikes; fun illustrations demonstrate the technique for flipping pizza dough. “Shout Out” and “Listen Up” use expressive type to feature relevant quotes by children and adults. One amusing layout combines photo-faces with illustration-bodies in a section where OWL Magazine staff share their favourite greening ideas. End material includes a bibliography, a list of websites and an index, completing this fine resource for readers who want to protect their environment.