Children’s / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues

This book looks at habitats and biomes, including rainforests, deserts, tundra and grasslands, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

This book looks at the rock cycle, including topics such as weathering, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks, igneous rocks and making new rock, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

This book looks at life cycles, including raising young, how plants grow, human reproduction and metamorphosis, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

This book looks at plant structures, including leaves, stems, roots and shoots, fruits and photosynthesis, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

This book looks at Earth's landforms, including mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers and islands, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

This book looks at the water cycle, including topics such as evaporation, condensation, clouds and precipitation, through amazing facts, figures and stats.

Get ready for some literal bathroom reading.

Have you ever wondered how the sewer system works?

Where does clean drinking water come from?

Rubbish looks disgusting and smells worse, but what happens to it after the bin lorry takes it away?

Geothermal energy makes use of the energy already present within the earth.

Hydropower makes use of the energy in flowing water.

Solar energy harnesses the power of the sun.

Wind energy harnesses the power of the wind.

Early readers will discover fields of wheat, corn, potatoes and other crops in Plants on the Farm.

Explore beyond the headlines on the topics of war and terrorism, learning how these issues are treated in the news and how to separate truth from spin.

Explore beyond the headlines on the topic of protecting endangered animals, learning how this issue is treated in the news and how to separate truth from spin.

Nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide are all gases in Earth's atmosphere.

The hydrosphere encompasses all water on Earth from glaciers and ice to rivers and oceans.

Humans have influenced the world around them since they first walked on Earth.

Pollution and mining for resources have negatively impacted Earth.

Where do you run when there's no one left to trust?

Part of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, aimed at improving outside-the-classroom learning for children from Year 1 to Year 6Teaching outside the classroom improves pupils' engagement with learning as well as their health and wellbeing, but how can teachers link curriculum objectives effectively with enjoyable and motivating outdoor learning in Key Stage 1?

Part of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, aimed at improving outside-the-classroom learning for children from Year 1 to Year 6Teaching outside the classroom improves pupils' engagement with learning as well as their health and wellbeing, but how can teachers link curriculum objectives effectively with enjoyable and motivating outdoor learning in Year 6?

Part of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, aimed at improving outside-the-classroom learning for children from Year 1 to Year 6Teaching outside the classroom improves pupils' engagement with learning as well as their health and wellbeing, but how can teachers link curriculum objectives effectively with enjoyable and motivating outdoor learning in Year 5?

Part of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, aimed at improving outside-the-classroom learning for children from Year 1 to Year 6Teaching outside the classroom improves pupils' engagement with learning as well as their health and wellbeing, but how can teachers link curriculum objectives effectively with enjoyable and motivating outdoor learning in Year 4?

Part of the National Curriculum Outdoors series, aimed at improving outside-the-classroom learning for children from Year 1 to Year 6Teaching outside the classroom improves pupils' engagement with learning as well as their health and wellbeing, but how can teachers link curriculum objectives effectively with enjoyable and motivating outdoor learning in Year 3?

*Longlisted for the 2025 Children's Wrainwright Prize for Non-Fiction*Take a tour of 20 unforgettable animal homes: unearth polar bear dens deep beneath the Arctic snow, soar above eagle nests as big as cars and marvel at the remoras that make themselves comfortable on the ocean's deadliest predators.

Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education.

Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education.

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In 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild.

Have you and your family eaten organic foods?

Have you ever shopped for fruits, vegetables, or meat at a local farmers' market?

Have you seen eggs labeled "e;free-range"e;?

School and community gardens are popping up around the United States, providing fresh produce even in the most crowded spaces in the country.

Vehicles such as cars, trucks, planes, and ships create much of the pollution in our environment.

Pollution from nuclear power plants can have extremely harmful effects on people, animals, and the environment.

Factories create large amounts of pollution when making their products.

Americans throw away millions of tons of waste at home every year.

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas create many types of pollution.

Everyone needs to eat, yet farming is a major cause of pollution around the world.

Do you ever worry about the environment?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Find out what a Galapagos tortoise has in common with a shingleback lizard.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

When the Little Prince and Fox arrive, the ocean is nothing but a vast carpet of garbage.