Description
- Petersen explains a complex topic in a clear and easy-to-understand manner - Includes some U.S. history information, such as the history of settlement and efforts by various presidents to preserve land - Great resource for class discussion about protecting the environment/Earth Day National Science Standards, Grades K-4 - Life Science: III. Content Standard C - Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met; the world has many different environments. - Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments; humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental. - An organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's environment; when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive while others die.
