Earth

NATURE
Helping the Earth
BY: LAUREN
CHOJNACKI
5th grade Bailey Lake
Elementary, Clarkston
Schools
A
lot of tragic things happen on Earth as a result
of what we, human beings, do. The number
of living animals and forests is dropping. We
are making and throwing away a lot of trash. This
may not sound very important, but it’s a huge thing
because nature is part of the world. If you hurt it, it
may never bloom again.
What can you do to help our world? Have a green
thumb and help plants and animals. Don’t destroy
plants for fun or any other reason. Animals are just
like you and me, but shaped differently, furry, and
eat food on the ground. Treat animals nicely and
softly because they’re living things, too.
There are trash cans and recycling bins everywhere.
They are two different things. Don’t throw
away what can be recycled. You can save many natural
resources by doing this. If you miss the bin with
your trash, please go back and pick it up because it
can fly in the wind and an animal might eat it and
get sick. Help people when you get a chance. It’s just
the nice thing to do. Be nice to others, animals, and
nature.
Polar Bears
BY: CARALYN HASS
4th grade, Bailey Lake Elementary,
Clarkston Schools
One problem that the world is facing
today is global warming. There are
many reasons why people should
take it seriously. One of them is that the
climate change is affecting the polar bears. We
are losing polar bears quickly.
Polar bears’ drained-out-color fur is very
thick and keeps their giant body warm so
they can survive in the cold winter land.
They hunt for food - they eat seals - and it
takes a lot of patients and time. Polar bears
are normally independent. Mothers stay with
their cubs until mothers
think that cubs are ready
to go out into the world
by themselves. Polar bears
spend more time in the sea
than on land.
The global warming is
making less time for polar
bears to hunt seals because
the ice needs to be frozen
so they can walk and hunt
seals and to not starve. So if
it stays warm longer, there
is less time and food polar
bears get. This makes the
polar bears lose 15 pounds.
The population on Hudson
Bay, the second-largest bay in the world that
is usually frozen over from mid-December to
mid-June, has gone down more than 20 percent,
because of temperature changes.
Scientists have worked really hard to find
the solution to global warming. There is no
one thing that can solve it. Every person in
the world has to help.
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