SuitabookThe great Pacific garbage patch
Laura Perdew
- Reading
- Pause at the cause-and-effect flow chart and ask the reader to trace one connection. Then compare the monitoring, clean-up and prevention approaches the book presents.
- Themes
- Explaining causes and effects: The book uses science explanations and a cause-and-effect flow chart to connect ocean currents and plastic with the garbage accumulation and its effects. Its structure invites readers to follow links between processes, the accumulation of rubbish and consequences for ocean life and people.
- Responses to ocean rubbish: The book considers actions by people and governments and includes sections on monitoring, clean-up efforts and prevention. The sections organise possible responses around monitoring, clean-up and prevention.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes environmental damage and threats to ocean life and people; consider whether this environmental focus is right for your reader.