Garbage

Donna Latham

Description

That potato chip bag you tossed in your trash can this afternoon-where does it go when it leaves your house?Garbage: Follow the Path of Your Trash with Science Activities for Kids invites middle graders to investigate the world of trash! The average American produces more than four pounds of trash every day-multiply that by 300 million people and you've got a lot of garbage! Where does it go? How does it break down? What are the challenges of dealing with so much waste? What can we do decrease the amount of stuff we are throwing away? Garbage explores questions like these while encouraging kids to think about the choices they make that generate garbage in the first place.In this book, kids discover the science of garbology, the fascinating world of midden excavation, and learn about different rubbish warriors who are determined to save the planet from being overrun with trash. Readers learn ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink their actions by diving into critical-thinking activities designed to get kids looking at trash as a situation in need of a solution. While we all appreciate our garbage to be out of sight and out of mind, it's crucial to recognize the impact that human behavior has on the planet.Garbage includes hands-on STEM activities and critical thinking exercises to encourage readers to figure out ways to be part of the rubbish revolution. Fun facts, links to online primary sources and other supplemental material, and essential questions take readers on an exploration of the path of trash! Garbage is part of a set of four Build It Environmental Science books that explore the history and science of the planet and all that live on it through hands-on STEM activities and real-life environmental connections. Other titles in this series are Biodiversity, Planet Earth, and Biomes.Nomad Press books integrate content with participation. Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Nomad's unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.

Informations

• Publié par: Nomad Press
• Date de parution: 12 mars 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781619307469
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 53 Mo

Extrait

GARBAGE FOLLOW THE PATH OF YOUR TRASH WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Donna Latham Illustrated by Tom Casteel

GARBAGE

FOLLOW THE PATH OF YOUR TRASH WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Donna Latham Illustrated by Tom Casteel

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Contents

How Long Is It Around?. . . iv

Introduction A Throwaway World . . . 1

Chapter 1 How Much Garbage Do You Produce? . . . 8

Chapter 2 Heaps of History . . . 19

Chapter 3 Where Does Trash Go? . . . 35

Chapter 4 Hazardous Waste . . . 49

Chapter 5 Reduce . . . 63

Chapter 6 Reuse . . . 79

Chapter 7 Recycle . . . 92

Chapter 8 Rethink . . . 105

Glossary|Metric Conversions Resources|Essential Questions|Index

Interested in Primary Sources? Look for this icon.Use a smartphone or tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more! Photos are also primary sources because a photograph takes a picture at the moment something happens.

You can find a list of URLs on the Resources page. If the QR code doesn’t work, try searching the internet with the Keyword Prompts to find other helpful sources. garbage

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HOW LONG IS IT AROUND?

How Long Is It Around? You might think that aluminum soda can is simply gone once you’ve tossed it in the trash, but guess what? That can is going to be around for a long, long time. Take a look! In the chart below, one trash can represents 20 years. = 20 years

Glass bottle

Monofilament fishing line

Plastic beverage bottles

Disposable diapers

Foamed plastic buoy

Foamed plastic cups

Tin cans

Nylon fabric

Plastic bag

Cigarette butt

Plywood

Waxed milk carton

Apple core

Newspaper

Orange or banana peel

1 million years

600 years

450 years

450 years

80 years

50 years

50 years

30–40 years

10–20 years

1–5 years

1–3 years

3 months

2 months

6 weeks

2–5 weeks

HOW LONG IS IT AROUND?

Imagine these continuing for more than four football fields!

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A THROWAWAY WORLD

Introduction

Wat ave you tossed în te tras today? A gnawed apple core? A mangled plastîc straw? Maybe you trew away a tattered backpack or an old paîr of sneakers.

Tras îs stuf we consîder useess. Anoter word or tras îs garbage. We trow garbage “away.” Anywere you Ind peope, you’ Ind garbage— mounds and mounds o ît. A gyre o pastîc tras loats în te mîdde o te ocean. Garbage îs even marooned on te surace o te moon.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Why does it matter where our garbage goes after we throw it out?

Usuay, we don’t reaîze ow muc stuf we trow away. ïn just one year, an average amîy o our în te Unîted States curns out 6,351 pounds o waste . hat’s enoug to I a tree-bedroom ouse to te ceîîng.

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GARBAGE

WORDS TO KNOW Ater you trow away tat empty potato gyre:a spiral. cîp bag, wat appens? Do you ug your tras maroon:to leave someone or cans out to te curb at nîgt, ony to Ind something trapped somewhere tem empty în te mornîng? Do you cuck that’s hard to get to. your tras bags înto te dumpster beînd your waste:material that is not buîdîng or at te dump, never to see tem wanted. agaîn? ït’s easy to get rîd o garbage so you landfill:a huge area of land never ave to see ît agaîn. Tras îs out o sîgt, where trash gets buried. incinerator:a large furnace out o mînd. that burns trash. wake:a trail of something left But—what happens to all that behind. garbage once it leaves our hands? scavenge:to find usable bits and parts from discarded stuff. Tras gets jam-packed înto landfills or burned în incinerators . But tras doesn’t aways make ît to a garbage can. ït’s oten et beînd as messy îtter tat peope careessy scatter în teîr wake . Lîtter lutters across our streets, parks, and beaces. No wonder so many peope tak tras tese days!

Beachfront garbage credit: epSos.de (CC BY 2.0)

A Throwaway World

Bootprint on the moon

Garbage can even be ound out o tîs word! Durîng te îstorîc 1969 Apollo 11mîssîon, astronauts Neî Armstrong and Buzz Adrîn gatered rocks and soî rom te surace o te moon. he astronauts et beînd an Amerîcan lag and a eap o space tras.

To îgten teîr spacecrat’s oad and make room to transport sampes back to Eart, astronauts et empty ood sacks, vomît bags, a TV camera, coectîon tongs, and magazînes on te moon.heyevenettespaceboots tat made tose amous ootprînts on te moon’s surace.

About the Projects Use projects and activities in this book to make your own discoveries about garbage and spark new ideas about ways to tackle waste. Don’t have the suggested materials and supplies needed for a project? Think of items you can substitute. Scavengestuff from a friend. Trade with someone. Of course, safety’s first, so ask adults for help when handling sharp items and glue guns or when using the stove.

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