Catch the wind, harness the sun

Catch the wind, harness the sun

Michael J. Caduto

Book - 2011

Suggests activities and experiments for understanding global warming, causing a smaller power footprint, and using solar and wind power, and spotlights young activists.

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Subjects
Renewable energy sources > Juvenile literature.
Energy conservation > Juvenile literature.
Science > Experiments > Juvenile literature.
Science projects > Juvenile literature.
Published
North Adams, MA : Storey Pub 2011.
Language
English
Main Author
Michael J. Caduto (-)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
223 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
ISBN
9781603429719
9781603427944
  • Foreword / John Hanson Mitchell
  • Foreword / David Bonta
  • Preface
  • Kids Power!
  • Part 1: Heating Up
  • Energy and the power of simplicity
  • Art for the earth / Green Giant Kevin Huo
  • Activity: A dark day of enlightenment
  • Global climate change
  • Activity: Carbon-nation simulation
  • A not-so-green house
  • Clearing the air on ozone: Green Giant Otana Jakpor
  • Activity: Blue-burning marsh bubbles
  • Part 2: Chilling out
  • Where has all the power gone?
  • Activity: Sherlock Ohms & Doctor Watt-son
  • Popping the carbon bubble
  • Cleaning parks, saving the world: Green Giant Samantha Muscarella
  • Activity: Tree-mendously cool
  • Global heart-warming
  • Campaigning for camels: Green Giant Cameron Oliver
  • Activity: Helping countries on the hot seat
  • Part 3: Harness the sun
  • Star power
  • Activity: Writing with sunlight
  • Activity: Solar campfire
  • Sun and wind
  • Cool dude: Green Giant Colin Carlson
  • Activity: Drying clothes on-line
  • Renewable, every day
  • Activity: That's sun cookin'
  • Activity: Sun tea
  • Capture the sun
  • One smart cookie: Green Giant Michelle Marcus
  • Activity: Solar heat by the gallon
  • Plugging in to sunlight
  • Activity: Personal solar power
  • Part 4: Catch the wind
  • What drives the wind?
  • Monarchs catch the wind: Green Giant Benjamin Workinger
  • Activity: Pie-plate wind maker
  • Activity: Party-balloon wind gauge
  • Wind power
  • Activity: Sail away
  • Winged towers
  • Clean air, healthy people: Green Giants Idle Free Girls & Nathan Moos
  • Activity: Mini-windmill power
  • Part 5: Crank up the power
  • All charged up
  • Activity: Static balloons & bad hair
  • Electromagnetism
  • Activity: Magnetic attraction--or not
  • Activity: Un-true north
  • Of generators and motors
  • Friend of nature: Green Giant Adeline Tiffanie Suwana
  • Activity: Pedal power
  • Seeing the light
  • Activity: Power play game board
  • Epilogue.
Review by Booklist Review

The eco-themed activities that Caduto lays out here are only the beginning, as he embeds them in short but clear explanations of relevant scientific facts, profiles of young eco-activists, provocative follow-up questions, photos and cartoon spot art aplenty, folktales, and other enhancements. The projects range widely in difficulty from planning and conducting an electricity-free day to constructing solar- and bicycle-powered battery chargers and also in appeal. Budding scientists are not likely to get excited at the prospect of demonstrating how to dry clothes on a line or building a crude little sailboat, but who could resist making a sun-powered cooker from an umbrella or collecting (and, with strenuously emphasized safety precautions, igniting) marsh gas? Closing with relatively extensive annotated lists of organizations and websites, this may not offer experimenters as many ideas as Elizabeth Snoke Harris' Save the Earth Science Experiments (2008) or Sherry Amsel's 365 Ways to Live Green for Kids (2009), but the generous quantity of enrichment material makes it a worthy addition to the ranks of science-project titles.--Peters, Joh. Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 5-8-Caduto's enthusiasm for hands-on science and his belief that people can make a difference result in a high-energy book bursting with activity ideas. Background information related to each experiment and embedded safety precautions accompany photo-illustrated instructions. Cartoons, quizzes, riddles, folktales, and profiles of "green giants" will engage students. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review by Horn Book Review

Caduto guides young conservationists through the science of energy use and climate change. Activities of varying degrees of difficulty explore personal energy consumption, solar and wind power, and electricity and magnetism. Profiles of kids making a difference are also included. Cheery photographs and cartoonlike illustrations show adults and children engaged in the various projects and activities. Reading list, websites. Ind. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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