The Environmental Movement: Then and Now (America: 50 Years of Change Series)

by Rebecca Stefoff

Overview

Discusses the main concerns of the environmental movement in the 1960s, and how those have evolved since; what's changed for the better, what might be worse, and where do we go from here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543503883
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	America: 50 Years of Change Series
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Stefoff has published many books for young readers about science, technology, and engineering. For Marshall Cavendish/Benchmark's Great Inventions series (2006-2003), she wrote six titles, including The Telephone, Microscopes and Telescopes, and Robots. She introduced fifth-grade readers to the scientific method in the six-volume series Is It Science? (Cavendish Square, 2014), whichincludes,Astrology and Astronomy, Alchemy and Chemistry, and Magic and Medicine. Her six volume series Great Engineering, for second- and third-grade readers, is forthcoming from Cavendish Square and has books on building bridges, dams, skyscrapers, and more. Stefoffis especially happy to be writing about the building of the Panama Canal for the Engineering Wonders series because she has seen the canal firsthand. While celebrating her parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary on a cruise ship, she passed through the canal and witnessed the extraordinary engineering marvels that are its locks. She has been interested in the Panama Canal (and other canals) ever since.

Table of Contents

1 A Call to Action 5

2 Many Streams, One River 13

3 To Save the Planet 21

4 Voices from All Sides 33

5 Fifty Years Later 41

6 Now What? 51

Timeline 59

Glossary 60

Read More 61

Critical Thinking Questions 62

Internet Sites 63

About the Author 63

Index 64

Interviews

Contrasts historical and current perspective on the environmental movement; meets Common Core and curriculum standards