Sustaining Our Natural Resources

"Through short sentences and brief paragraphs, this terrific series focuses on the challenge of meeting people's basic needs for food, water, shelter, sanitation, education, and health care in developed and developing countries. Population Growth includes discussions of family planning and contraceptives; Preventing Disease explains the risks of smoking and includes a photo of lungs with cancer; a

"These books do an admirable job of encouraging students to make up their own minds about various worldwide environmental obstacles. Charts, graphs, and other visuals are utilized to explain facts. Organizational aids such as Venn diagrams, KWL charts, concept webs, problem solving models, survey ideas, etc. are included and explained as ways to expand research. Although this is exemplary nonficti