Children's Book–Saving The Earth

By: Sophie Taylor, Emily Hainer, Sunny Qi, and Lauren

Fleming

Pollution

There are many different types of pollutionOur project focused on land pollutionLand Pollution is when the earth’s land and soil is contaminated with wasteLand can be polluted by:

PesticidesLitterAshesPaint

Land Pollution DangersIt can affect wildlife, plants, and humansCan cause life-threatening illnessesMay harm the respiratory system on animals and humans Produces problems on skinLeads to birth defects Can cause some types of cancers

Stopping Land Pollution

People need to know about how littering is harmfulLitter should be thrown into trash cansOrganic waste from farms should be disposed away form residential areasItems such as paper, plastic, glass and metals should be recycled

Our Goal

We wanted to teach younger kids about pollutionWe also wanted to teach them about recycling and what to recycleWe wanted to be able teach them in a way that would be friendly to younger kidsWe predicted that more people would recycle if they knew how, why, and what to recycle

Project-The Book We decided to write a children's book We used two main characters, to make it more appealing to young children

Polly Pollution, the villain Michael Recycle, the hero

We also made the lines rhyme so kids would like it, and so it would flow

Our Book Cover

Project-The Service

We read our finished book to the Kindergarteners at the KinderCare of Chalfont as our service learning component.

Project-The Service (cont.)

The kindergarteners all learned about recycling and had fun hearing about Polly Pollution and Michael Recycle in the story we wrote.

A Video of Us Reading to the Kindergarteners!

Bibliography

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