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How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate
Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
By Cherry, Lynne & Braasch, Gary
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-58469-103-7
- Publisher
- Dawn
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2008
Gr 4-8 Cherry and Braasch introduce readers to scientists around the world whose research contributes to an understanding of the causes and consequences of global warming. They also describe the work of citizen scientists, including children, whose observations contribute to knowledge about important changes that are occurring. Studies range from documenting bloom dates of trees an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2008
Front and center in this excellent book are the data upon which explanations for rapid climate change are built. Each double-page spread in the first two-thirds of the book features a research project revealing changes in ecosystems—in the behaviors of butterflies and penguins, in the sizes of glaciers and sea levels, and in the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carefully built progression of cases—just a small sampli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Double-page spreads feature many research projects revealing changes in ecosystems, driving home the message that change really is occurring at an ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
