ICS Inter-Community School Library: G4 STP: Grade 4 Sharing The Planet

Lines of Inquiry

Humans depend on natural resources.
Reducing the amount of resources people use can conserve finite resources.
People have a custodial responsibility to support the sustainability of the earth's resources.

Britannica School

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General information. Good for finding out about a topic when you begin research. Includes up-to-date information sources and allows you to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.
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Fossil Fuel

Green School Bali: School of the Future, Now

Edible Food Wraps

Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Where did the oil go?

Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Where did the oil go?
In April of 2010, a BP Deepwater Oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing eleven workers and unleashing an unprecedented amount of sticky black crude into the gulf waters, beaches, wetlands, and surrounding ecosystems. Before we were able to successfully cap the ruptured deep water well, it flowed unchecked for 87 days at a rate of approximately 53,000 barrels per day, making it the nation’s worst offshore environmental catastrophe in history.

Man V Earth

How to save our planet

My Best Friend, The Forest

My Best Friend, The Forest
"In Switzerland more of us than ever regularly head into the woods. But other people more frequently dampen our enjoyment of the experience than they used to. Our relationship with the forest has become a little complicated."

Beetles For Breakfast

Beetles for Breakfast by Madeleine Finlay; Jisu Choi (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781912497508
Chomping into a cricket sandwich? Cruising down the highway in a coffee-powered car? Learn about the bizarre but genius ways our lives could be changed by planet-saving tech! A visually stunning book crammed with detail and numerous weird and wonderful ideas on how to reduce the impact climate change is having on our planet.

Micro-Mobility

Micro-Mobility

Questions to conside

What are the earth's natural resources?

What are examples of finite resources?

What are examples of infinite resources?

What are fossil fuels?

How do we use natural resources?

BrainPop

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BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
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How to Save Our Frozen Worlds: Clean Energy

How to Save Our Frozen Worlds: Clean Energy
Wildflower meadows, seagrass beds, mangroves, marshlands, and our glorious jungles can all help capture the excess of carbon in our atmosphere and help stabilize our climate. These ecosystems are brilliant balancing tools that Earth has built-in. But we need to protect and expand on them.

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature | Conservation International (CI)

Imagine a world without fossil fuels

Imagine a world without fossil fuels
Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres outlines her vision of a world that's entirely free of fossil fuels.

Celebrating 50 Community Fridges

Daniel Freitag (Freitag) on thinking and acting in cycles - What Design Can Do 2018

Older Than Dirt

Older Than Dirt by Don Brown; Michael Perfit
Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a BIG BANG and what began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgling planet finally pushed forth continents. But if you think the earth has calmed down since then--think again! Geological activity continues to sculpt the earth's landscape, sometimes with terrible consequences for its inhabitants: earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis.

Gretha Thunberg TedX

Fridays for Future: Greta’s school strikes led a third of Swiss citizens to change their habits
"Almost a third of Swiss people changed their daily habits as a result of Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future climate strikes, new research has found.

Last month, the global youth movement - which sees schoolchildren strike to demand action on climate change - celebrated its fifth anniversary.

Now, a study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) has examined the wider impact of these strikes on people’s environmental choices."

Waste free Food Packaging Designed by Tomorrow Machine

Are we running out of clean water?

Could you live off grid?

Could you live off grid?
Could you live off the grid?
What is the grid?
Why do some people want to live off the grid?
Meet the boy who goes to school on a horse and cart
Could you live without electricity or running water? For 7-year-old Madog, he and his family have decided to ditch 21st century living in favour or a more basic lifestyle.

Why aren't we only using solar power?

Solar power is cheaper and more sustainable than our current coal-fueled power plants, so why haven't we made the switch? The real culprits here are the clouds, which make solar power difficult to control. Alexandros George Charalambides explains how solar towers and panels create electricity and how scientists are trying to create a system that can function even under cloud cover.

UNEQUAL SCENES - JOHNNY MILLER

UNEQUAL SCENES - JOHNNY MILLER
"Severe economic inequality is largely a consequence of human-enacted policies. Tin shacks in Cape Town are separated from mansions with barbed wire and concrete walls. Millionaires in high-rise aeries in Mumbai gaze down on informal settlements, their roofs covered in blue tarps to keep out the monsoon rains. Pollution-spewing highways belch toxins onto playgrounds in underserved areas of New York City. "

Businesses with Sustainable Practices

Organization	Link
Freitag Bags (One-off bags and accessories made from used truck tarps and fully compostable textiles. Based in Switzerland)	Link
Forest Green Rovers Football Club (The United Nations has recognised Forest Green Rovers, in England, as the world's first carbon-neutral football club)	Link
OOHO Water: (an innovative alternative solution to the classic plastic bottles)	Link
Patagonia Outdoor Clothing (Patagonia's core value and business model has been to create slow fashion, high-quality, durable products that have a longer lifespan to help reduce carbon footprint and remain sustainable.)	Link
Bamboo Cycles (Alternative to bikes constructed from either metal or carbon. They're more sustainable, and therefore good in an environmentally conscious sense too.)	Link
Space Hippie: Nike shoes made from waste (an exploratory footwear collection inspired by life on Mars—where materials are scarce)	Link
Incredible Eats (Edible spoons from natural products like wheat, corn, rice, and chickpeas)	Link
iThrone (A portable toilet that doesn't require water, power or plumbing to do its job.)	Link
Fungi Solutions (Mushroom based packaging)	Link
Round Rivers (a sustainable swimwear brand that turns plastics from the Zurich river Limmat into upcycled (recycled) swimwear)	Link

Ten Love Letters to Earth Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh

IFLA SDG Stories
Make it Circular Challenge
Meet the 50 nominated projects of the Make it Circular Challenge. The shortlist features exciting innovations that prevent waste by rethinking our way of life: from what we eat and wear to how we build, package and buy. The selection includes game-changing materials, products, services and systems from creatives in 20 different countries. Over the next few weeks, an international jury will evaluate the shortlist to decide on 13 winners worldwide, to be announced on 3 May 2023.

G4 STP: Grade 4 Sharing The Planet

Central Idea

People can establish practices in order to sustain and maintain Earth's resources