Teacher Resources
How are plastics made? Michigan Reach Out. (accessed 07/30 2009). http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/quick/plastic.html. Explanation of how plastics are made from petroleum. Appropriate for student reading material.
Plastic bags and plastic bottles - CO 2 emissions during their lifetime. (accessed 07/30 2009) Time For Change Newsletter. http://timeforchange.org/plastic-bags-and-plastic-bottles- CO 2-emissions. Provides data and calculations for linking plastic production and incineration to CO 2 emissions.
Plastic bag fact sheet - Action Club, 2008 - Lincoln Academy. A Series of slides with photos and information about plastic usage and impacts on environment and wild life. PowerPoint presentation.
Anastas, Paul, and John Warner. 2000. The twelve principles of green chemistry. In Green chemistry., 30. New York: Oxford University Press Inc. This book is an introduction to the topic of green chemistry. It introduces the reader to what green chemistry is, the tools and principles of green chemistry, and the evaluation of green chemistry. A good introductory resource.
Archer, David. 2007. Global warming: Understanding the forecast. Global warming: Understanding the forecast. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd This book provides a fundamental understanding of global warming by presenting it as the problem of assessing the risk of climate change caused by man.
Bates, B.C., Z.W. Kundzewicz, S. Wu and J.P. Palutikof, Eds., 2008: Climate Change and Water. Technical Paper of the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, 210 pp.
Cowens, John. 2007. Paper or plastic? Teaching Pre K - 8. April 2007, www.teachingk-8.com/archives/integrating_science_in_your_classroom/paper_or_plastic_by_john_cowens.html. Provides activities for finding mass and volume of paper and plastic bags.
David, Laurie, and Cambria Gordon. 2007. The down-to-earth guide to global warming. New York, NY: Orchard Books, Scholastic Inc. A comprehensive resource for understanding why global warming happens and the ways it impacts our planet. Presents ways to work together to help prevent the full consequences of global warming.
Drake, Frances. 2000. Global warming: The science of climate change. New York: Oxford University Press Inc. This book concentrates on the climate related aspects of global warming and how the science is being used to inform policy-makers. It provides the basic concepts behind global warming. It helps the reader place global warming within the context of climate change.
Hertsgaard, Mark. 2006. While Washington slept. Vanity Fair, www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/05/warming200605. Article discussing the potential impact of sea level rise due to global warming.
Imhoff, Daniel. 2005. Paper or plastic. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Book Clubs This book presents the dilemma of the supermarket choice of paper or plastic in today's society. The problem with packaging is unfolded giving consumers, product designers, and policymakers information needed to take necessary steps toward a more sustainable future.
IPCC. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, IPCC Plenary XXVII (Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007. Provides an integrated view of climate change.
Jackson, Lisa P. A. 2006. Climate change kids site - the carbon cycle. Environmental Protection Agency, (accessed 07/30 2009). www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/carbon_cycle_version2.html. An animated diagram of the Carbon Cycle. Appropriate for kids.
Jackson, Lisa P. A. Climate change kids site - the greenhouse effect. Environmental Protection Agency. (accessed 07/30 2009). www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html. An informative and illustrated page of the greenhouse effect with an animated diagram of an enhanced greenhouse effect. Appropriate for kids.
Karl, Thomas R. 1997. Global warming and the earth's water cycle: What do the changes mean and why be concerned? Suite 250, 1717 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC: US Global Change Research Program. (accessed 07/30 2009) www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/971105DD.html (Updated Oct. 12, 2003). November 5, 1997 seminar presentation on the Earth's Water Cycle and Global Warming. Appropriate for student reading material.
Maslin, Mark. 2004. Global warming: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press Inc. This book, published in 2004, is an easy read that predicts the impacts of global warming and what could be in store beyond 2004. Identifies the controversies around global warming and presents the findings of the then current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report to the general readership.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystem and Human well-being: synthesis. Island Press, Washington, DC. World Resources Institute
Rasmusson, E., Alley, R., Fisher, A., Mahlman, H., Tans, P. and Wallace, M. J. Global warming facts & our future - the earth's carbon cycle. Marian Koshland - Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences. Washington, D.C., (accessed 07/30 2009). www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/carbon01.jsp. Discusses the natural balance of the Earth's carbon cycle and human's impact on that balance.
Richardson, Annie. 2008. Plastic bags and oil consumption. Food democracy. (accessed 7/30/2009) http://fooddemocracy.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/plastic-bags-and-oil-consumption/ ed.
Schendler, Auden. 2009. Getting green done - hard truths from the front lines of the sustainability revolution. First ed. New York, NY: PublicAffairs member of Perseus Books Group. This book looks at the difficulty of going green and the urgency to go green. It highlights the issues surrounding the green movement and the reality of climate change.
Thomas, Karl R., Jerry M. Melillo, and Thomas C. eds Peterson. 2009. Global climate change impacts in the United States. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 9780521144070, (accessed 7/30/2009) www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts. Report summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United States.
Wargo. John, A Quiet Revolution in Plastics. An excellent resource providing information about how the use of different types of plastics, exposure to plasticizer chemicals, and inadvertent consumption of plastics has an impact on human health and the environment at large. Chapter of book.
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