For my final project I decided to make a children’s book for kindergarteners, first, and second graders. I decided to make a book about polar bears because I feel like all kids love polar bears and who doesn’t love polar bears? The book is going to be about how climate change is affecting the polar bears in the Artic. I thought I would use my blog post to do my research and enlighten everyone on how climate change is affecting the polar bears.
As we all know the polar bears live in the polar ice caps and the ice caps are currently melting because of climate change. The ice caps are melting because the greenhouse gases are acting like a blanket over our earth which is currently warming our environment. This is causing the polar ice caps to melt which is affecting the polar bears in a plethora of ways. It is affecting their access to food, body condition, lowering their cub survival rates, increase in drowning, and most importantly the decline of their population.
I want this book to not only teach kids about climate change but to teach them what they can do to help our environment and help the polar bears. The kids can tell their parents to switch their light bulbs to LED light bulbs and if they do that every light bulb you change can save enough light to light two million homes in one year. Another thing they can do is to make to sure to unplug something if they are not using it because we are wasting phantom power which is equal to the output from 18 power plant stations. The last thing these kids can do is use public transportation, ride their bike, or tell their parents to carpool because transportation produces 30% of all US global warming emissions. I think it is important for children to know about climate change in a simplistic way. I think it is important for them to know because they are the future and if they learn about it when they are little they are going to grow up doing all the things to save our environment and teach people about it.
This is the link I used to find my information http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/our-work/international-polar-bear-day
I think you have a great final project idea! I think it is a great way to get kids involved, along with their parents. Children love to read books about animals, so they will instantly connect with polar bear stories. It’s important for us to start educating the younger generation because they will be the ones growing up in global warming. Your project is a perfect opportunity to get them involved in adapting to global warming and understanding the consequences if they don’t.
Our group also decided to do a children’s book about how climate change is altering certain animal’s habitats. I think that it is really useful you provided specific ways that kids could help so that they can start to make a difference at a young age.
Awesome idea! Especially at this age, reading and comprehending it is important. Being able to do that with a fun book (polar bears), but also adding climate change gets them to think. Also I know when I was in kindergarten, I would read a lot with my mom. So being able to have that interaction with parent and children could also help to make those changes!