New French edition is here ! ………… ( English edition below )

 

More information on Albatrosses and Climate Change

Links and notes from the final page of “Artemis Flies to the Rescue”

Artemis was the goddess of innocence, the hunt, the moon and the natural environment. She was one of many goddesses of naure in ancient Greek mythology.

The albatross is the world’s biggest bird that normally roams around the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.

There are different kinds of albatrosses, but the biggest one has a wingspan of 3.5 metres. They can drink salty sea water without getting sick. They can fly 1,800 kilometres in 24 hours  and they spend many hours hunting for squid, crabs, lobsters, fish and krill. They carry all this food in their gullets and fly all the way home to vomit their food down the throats of their hungry, wide-mouthed babies.

Albatross links:

http://a-z-animals.com/animals/albatross/

<— the picture at left is from the a-z animals site

http://www.britannica.com/animal/albatross

at http://www.scientificamerican.com/  search Albatross

Climate change means the changes of temperature on the planet caused by human beings burning oil, gas and coal ( fossil fuels) in industries, cars, power plants and machines over the last 100 years. The carbon smoke is carbon dioxide which you often can’t see, except at coal plants where it comes out as black smoke. It traps heat and is causing extreme changes in weather.

Climate Change links

Lesson Plans for all grades:   http://www.climatechangelive.org/index.php?pid=180

Plastic garbage in the oceans: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/intolerable-beauty-plastic-garbage-kills-the-albatross/

Children’s Author Reading at Regina Beach

Saturday, January 30th at Regina Beach, Ingrid was one of two authors doing readings .

Climate Change: Artemis Flies to the Rescue

 

$10 Canadian (plus postage $4 ) directly from author: Send email to Ingrid at ialesich@myaccess.ca to order your copies/s.  Great as a resource for daycare centres, or Grades 1, 2 and 3.  Links also to Resources for lesson plans.

Artemis is an albatross who loves our water planet, Earth. She is upset about huge islands of plastic garbage in the oceans. Some of these have killed many of her relatives and other sea life. She flies all over the planet to find out where the killer plastic comes from. On her long travels, she sees people and animals suffering from climate change. She finds out connections between the two big problems. However, she discovers some wonderful solutions in one area of the world. Artemis and her relatives decide to make plans to help all the people on all the continents to reverse the damage and clean up the oceans.

Go to this U-Tube link to learn the chant from the book.