Learning Resources: Earth Day

"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..."

Children and adults will delight in Earth Day, a litany of gratitude that celebrates earth's diverse species, from apricots to groundhogs to junebugs, from quahogs to zinnias, zucchini and zebras with bright and whimsical illustrations.

A spectacular and exceptionally well-illustrated guide to everything on Earth. From rocks to redwoods and microbes to mammals - this is a dazzling visual introduction to our planet's treasures.

If You Come to Earth is a glorious guide to our home planet, and a call for us to take care of both Earth and each other.

Down where worms wriggle and microbes squirm, there's a whole world waiting to be discovered... Under Your Feet delves beneath the Earth's surface and explores the diverse wonders hidden there.

Here is Oliver Jeffers' user's guide to life on Earth. He created it specially for his son, yet with a universality that embraces all children and their parents.

This award-winning, double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey down through the layers of the Earth, all the way to the planet's core and out the other side.

Illustrated instructions guide readers through Earth Science experiments pertaining to changes on Earth, including plate tectonics, erosion, the greenhouse effect, and glaciers.

Young readers learn how they can create a greener, healthier world in this powerful nonfiction picture book.

Just what exactly is the "thing"? It is green--great and gorgeous green, dark and dangerous green, real mean green. And it's got green things--broccoli and praying mantises, watermelons and waves of mountains. It's green, green, green all over . . . except where it's blue. The Great Big Green is, of course, our earth. Both a riddle and an ode to the earth, this ingenious picture book arrives just in time for Earth Day.

Young readers can follow along as two children perform an experiment in which they create a new planet, replicating in ten steps the exact processes that formed Earth.

The Importance Of Plants And Our Dependence On Them Not Only For Food But Also For Our Clean Air And Water Are Discussed In This Title. How Crops And Plants Have Been Genetically Modified To Resist Disease And Insects. The Impact Humans Have On Our Earth And What We Can Do To Reduce The Use Of Our Nonrenewable Resources Are Discussed.

Tips on saving our planet are all around us, and Earth Day is a special holiday for honoring the planet and keeping it clean. Read about the different activities people take part in on this day, from recycling to picking up litter, to spreading the word about ecological awareness.

Earth might be the Blue Planet, but it is also the planet we call home. It's our very own corner of the solar system! Earth is unique. It has abundant life, breathable air, blue oceans, and a colorful range of landforms. The interesting facts and striking photos in Earth: The Blue Planet are sure to excite readers of all ages.

Our eyes help us look at the world, but there are many things we cannot see. Atoms are the building blocks of everything in the universe, from planets and stars to the cells that make up plants, animals, and the human body. Atoms are invisible because they are so small, but bigger things can be invisible, too. Ancient artifacts and buried bones are hidden under the ground, while invisible forces such as earthquakes and winds shape life on Earth. This book explores the invisible world of planet Earth. See our unseen world through satellite images taken hundreds of miles above Earth's surface. Learn about the invisible forces that help to shape the land. Take a close look at some of the extraordinary creatures hidden in the ocean depths.

Earth is the only planet in our solar system that is suitable for life. It has liquid water, oxygen, and enough gravity to hold its own atmosphere, but do your readers know that Earth is always changing?

Readers take a trip around the globe and examine the core subject of the Earth through a series of accessible story spreads.

A photographic feast serves up imagery and information about all things planet Earth: from its place in the solar system, to what it's made of, to what grows in it and on it, to what hovers above it.