Kids of all ages can use recycled and repurposed household items to complete exciting and green ecology experiments

Junk Drawer Ecology is a hands-on guide to saving the planet. Fun, free science activities help kids of all ages learn about the science of our planet's ecology. The environment is changing every day, and we can help slow that change. Using free or low-cost things children already have around their homes, these activities are perfect to stimulate young brains.

Readers will learn about the importance of the polar regions without leaving their communities, about new ways to cut our dependence on fossil fuels, about all forms of pollution, and how they can make a difference.

Junk Drawer Ecology will give inquisitive kids many hours of fun and help them learn at the same time.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Mini Greenhouse, Larger Greenhouses, Self-Watering Pots, Regrow Your Own Veggies, Solar Still, Cool Dirt or Hot Dirt, Landfill Design, Pick a Good Color, Recycling Paper, Milk and Vinegar Plastic, Paper Straws, Solar Pizza Box, Sun Power, Corn Starch Plastic, Keep the Heat In or Out
• 2: Animals and Plants: Yarn Food Chains, Yarn Food Webs, Decomposing Food Circles, Fish Food Chain, Food Chain Pyramids, Predators and Prey, Carnivores Eat Meat Triangle, Counting Fish in the Ocean, Paperclip Biodiversity, Random Sampling, Oily Feathers, Selective Nets, SPF for Life, Symbiotic Emojis, Ten Percent Dining
• 3: Water and Land: Paper Plate Biomes, Fire Triangles, Ice Shelf Melting, Melting Polar Ice Caps, Microclimates, Runoff vs Groundwater Pollution, Sinkholes, Stop the Acid Rain, Water Cycle bag, A Cup Full of Rain. Edible Aquifers, Mining for Chips, Ocean Currents, Tasty Soil
• 4: Air: The Air We Breathe, Clean Balloons, Sticky Note Carbon Cycle, Capture the Carbon, Paperclip Smog, Cyclone Air Cleaner