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

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I think the most appropriate grade level for students to read this independently is 3rd grade with some guidance and 4th and 5th grade alone. I love how it has a central dialogue throughout the book, but it also has so many smaller anecdotes too. The reason the age range is so large is because parents could read a few pages at a time to younger kids and explain/discuss the concepts, while older kids closer to 12 could read the book on their own and understand everything without an adult.

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It is visually engaging and detailed, it details about different types of waste and what we can do to make a difference. Children would need to have a good grasp of reading before attempting this book alone but would be a good challenge with assistance from the class teacher or more advanced student. The illustrations in the book are colorful and vibrant, bringing the characters and setting to life.

There are lots of text features inside of the book to help the students identify these important terms. The overall content of this book is recycling, preventing pollution, breakdown of chemicals, how long our trash takes to breakdown, and earths resources. A read-aloud of this book could be followed by a discussion about the conservation measures listed within the book and even some other ways students could identify that could help these issues as well.

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The book covers a wide range of topics, including landfills, plastic pollution, and the significance of recycling, all while providing practical tips for making a positive difference. There’s been a lot of great coverage and hopefully lots of people have made some changes and are trying to create less waste.

We would like to think of our planet Earth as a beautiful and clean place but the truth is we are surrounded by rubbish and it is all our own fault! The decisions we make daily really do impact our community and if we are more conscious about those decisions, we can make a positive impact on our world! Overall, a stellar production from writing, illustrating, and even publishing the book (it's made with more eco-friendly inks/materials). When using this book as a whole-class read-aloud, I would make a lesson that allows students to interact with their families at home, asking them what could they do around the house that could help our environment stay clean and healthy. I would do it this way because there are a lot of facts on each page, and I would give students a chance to look more into it after.

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

What I really like about this book which is important to mention to students when reading the story to them and/or having them read on their own is that the book was made from recycled and responsibly sourced materials. A well known example is Isaac Newton's Waste Book in which he did much of the development of the calculus. Taking small steps of change can encourage students to do even more when wanting to keep our planet/environment healthy for the endurable future. Jess French draws awareness to how humanity is "trashing the planet" with its "throw away culture" by organizing the book in such a way that could be taught part by part, depending on what an educator might be teaching their class. Overall this book is important to be used in elementary grades because it can create awareness on saving the world that students live in.This book has fun facts, and answers questions a lot of books/children's material generally doesn't (e. Graphics, actual photographs, and chunks of information make French's approach to showing how people can revert the damage done to the Earth, as well as explaining what has caused issues in nature, due to various types of pollution, loss of Earth's resources, and deforestation. Some people are doing an incredible job of reducing the amount of waste they produce and these people lead what is known as Zero Waste Lives. The easy thing to do is to follow the three R’s - Reduce what you use, Reuse what you must use, Recycle what you can not reuse. This could be a unit project with many different activities and the final project could be to go to the beach as well.