Books & Video
This is a collection of print and video resources. A separate collection of Online Resources is also available.
Key: E=Elementary (K-5),
I=Intermediate (6-8), HS=High School (9-12), C=College, G=General Public
NSTA Recommends: Titles from the National Science Teachers Association website.
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
- (Energy Revolution) St. Catharines, ON; New York: Crabtree Publishing, 2008. (E, I) How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.
- This book explains what an individual’s carbon footprint is and what can be done to make a difference. Special case studies show how these ideas are currently being put into practice around the world.
- London: A. & C. Black, 2007. (I, HS) You Can Save the Planet: A Day in the Life of Your Carbon Footprint.
- By examining activities undertaken during a typical day, at school, at home and out and about, this book shows the environmental costs hidden in these activities. Meals, chores, shopping and transportation are discussed.
- Your Carbon Footprint series. New York: Rosen Central, 2009. (I, HS)
- Reducing Your Carbon Footprint at Home.
- On the Move: Green Transportation.
- Smart Shopping: Shopping Green.
- Reducing Your Carbon Footprint at School.
- Reducing Your Carbon Footprint on Vacation.
Global Warming and Climate Change
- Glaciers and Ice Caps: The Melting.
New York: Ambrose Video Publishing, 2008.
- This video features experts explaining how global warming affects the cryosphere (glaciers, ice sheets, polar caps and sea ice). Includes an “Extras” folder with a teacher’s guide, printable maps and graphics, and quiz component.
- Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2008.
How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming.
- Using maps and data collected in local efforts, citizen scientist students can explore the work of many leading scientists who study climate change and its effects on living things.
- 1st ed. New York: Orchard Books, 2007.
Also available in Spanish: Que Es El Calentamiento Global? Barcelona: Oniro, 2008.
The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.
- Presents the basics on global warming, climate change, and how readers can green up the environment in an engaging, sometimes humorous manner.
- Rev. ed. New York: Viking, 2007.
Also available in Spanish: Una Verdad Incómoda: Los Peligros Del Calentamiento Global Explicados a Los Jóvenes. Barcelona, Gedisa International, 2007 and in juvenile edition DVD from Paramount.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming.
- Former Vice President Al Gore presents the science and public policy of global warming.
- Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 2008.
Investigating Climate Change.
- An excellent beginning text for middle and high school level students, with a good bibliography, list of web resources and glossary.
- (Our Planet in Peril) Mankato, MN: Bridgestone Books, 2003. (E, I) Global Warming.
- Well-organized introduction to global warming that includes instructions for simple experiments.
- (Let’s-Read-and-Find-out-Science) 1st ed. New York: Collins, 2006. (E) Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?: The Dangers of Global Warming.
- Discusses the greenhouse effect and what can be done to combat global warming.
- Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library, 2008.
- Each chapter is formatted on a two-page spread and uses language and text appropriate to early elementary readers.
- (Science Experiments for Young People) Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1993. (E) Environmental Experiments About Air.
- Uses text and experiments to provide information about the air and about pollution and other problems related to the atmosphere.
- New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2001.
Global Warming: A Threat to Our Future.
- Uses accessible text and colorful pictures and diagrams to explain both natural and manmade factors that affect the temperature of the earth and its atmosphere.
- Toronto: Maple Tree Press, 2007.
This Is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming.
- A book that focuses on how all living things are affected by global climate change. Photos, graphs and diagrams supplement the text.