This nonfiction text exploring the world’s watersheds is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and Green Earth Book Award winner. Author Rowena Rae provides detailed and comprehensive facts about watersheds to help students build background knowledge, make connections, and ask questions. Students will learn about the importance of watersheds in ecosystems and careers in the field that work to protect these fragile environments to become educated and engaged citizens. The facts will prompt students to think about sustainable practices for the future and the role they play in protecting watersheds as they learn about the interconnectedness of the environment in Science. This text strongly supports learning about valuable natural resources and how water plays a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada and explores how geographic conditions shaped civilizations in the Social Studies curriculum for grades four through seven.

Other End Matter: Glossary, further print, and online resources
Images: Colour photographs
Bibliography: No
Index: Yes

Source: Books BC - BC Books for Schools

Rowena Rae worked as a biologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems in Canada and New Zealand before becoming a freelance writer, editor and children’s author. She is the author of Rachel Carson and Ecology for Kids, as well as Chemical World and Upstream, Downstream in the Orca Footprints line. Rowena writes both fiction and nonfiction from her home in Victoria, British Columbia.

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• Long-listed, The Nature Generation Green Earth Book Award
• Commended, Junior Library Guild (JLG) Gold Standard Selection

“Engaging and ­informative. Recommended.”

School Library Journal

“The combination of Rae’s interests and expertise has produced a book that will inform and engage young readers and encourage them to make a difference by getting involved. Highly Recommended.”

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

“Rae organizes her material well and presents it in a readable way, providing enough detail to make each section interesting, but always returning to the broader picture…An informative addition to the reliable Orca Footprints series.”

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