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Let's Think about Animal Rights by
This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of animal rights in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. The book looks at animal rights: what the current situation is, how far animal rights should go, and how far should they go in the future. The book covers eating meat, animals in sport, animals in medical testing, and the alternatives we could consider.
Let's Think about the Power of Advertising by
This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of advertising in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. The book looks at the power of advertising: how it works, the pros and cons, the impact of consumerism and how advertising affects our daily lives.
Let's Think about Sustainable Energy by
This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of sustainable energy in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. The book looks at the importance of sustainable energy, the pros and cons of different methods, and how sustainable energy is likely to develop in the future.
Let's Think about the Internet and Social Media by
This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of the internet and social media in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. This book looks at issues surrounding the use of the internet and social media, such as reliability of information, cyber-safety, and whether it is healthy to spend lots of time online.
Can We Protect People from Natural Disasters? by
What turns a flood event into a flood disaster? What can be done to protect crops from pests and fire? How do scientists detect likely tornado formation inside a thunderstorm? This book discusses natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, floods and droughts and looks into how scientists use their technology to try and protect people from them, such as seismology to detect earthquakes and sensors on buoys at sea to detect water pressure changes in the lookout for tsunamis, and whether these measures that are taken are effective or proactive enough.
Are Humans Damaging the Atmosphere? by
Car, train, ship or aeroplane which form of transport is most harmful to the atmosphere? What do farming techniques such as agrochemicals do? What is acid rain and what are effects of it? This book takes a look at the impact that our modern world is having on our surrounding environment, from our use of fossil fuels and our increase in global food production and building work, to the rise in our transport production. Discover what steps scientists and engineers, and even ordinary people, are taking to develop sustainable solutions to these problems, from replastering festivals to buildings bound together using horse hair "
How Effective Is Recycling? by
How do we end up eating plastic bags? What is e-waste ? How do we recycle plastics? This book discusses recycling in a world that has an increasing amount of waste, looking at how effective we are globally at recycling and highlighting issues such as the dangers of recycling toxic or hazardous waste, the potential of blackwater treatment and the use of new building materials that are sustainable, such as guadua bamboo."
How Harmful Are Fossil Fuels? by
Is burning coal still harmful today? What is fracking? What do we do when fossil fuels run out? This book looks at the potentially harmful implications on the state of our planet from the use of fossil fuels, discussing in depth the various techniques of fossil fuel extraction such as longwall mining for coal, the major effects of oil leaks and spills on the ocean and the reason for the heated debate about fracking. The book also looks at alternative energy sources such as biofuels, hydroelectric power and even a new type of rocket fuel.
What are the limits of .....
Organ Transplant
Genetic Technology
Stem Cell Research
Invasive Spacies
Animal Welfare
Cloning
This series on myON is recommended for G6.
Fountas & Pinnell level R
