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    The Wizard Who Saved the World
    The Wizard Who Saved the World
    The Wizard Who Saved the World
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    The Wizard Who Saved the World

    By Jeffrey Bennett and Roberta Collier-Morales

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    Diego dreams of being a wizard so he can make the world a better place by fighting global warming. When he realizes that he can't really perform magic, Diego thinks of ways he can help save the world by considering many potential careers and what it would take to achieve them. Filled with sidebars called Big Kid Boxes that explain the crucial scientific concepts that lie behind the scenes depicted, this inspirational story gives children an opportunity to exercise their own magical dreams.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781937548087
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      Mr. Bennett has created the perfect book for young kids, to introduce the subject of climate change and global warming.As in his Max the Dog series, he uses only established peer-reviewed science in the exciting story of a boy who dreams of being a wizard and doing things for the common good. Magic stays in the boy's dreams. The principles of climate change, and its documentation are clearly presented. The boy sees the need for action and also sees how several types of corrective action can be taken without requiring magic, to avert bad consequences from climate change. The boy is then inspired to affect those changes, and hopefully the young kids reading the book will be similarly inspired to act to minimize the pending climate problem.In addition to the topic of climate change, the interaction of climate, atmosphere, and biology is good science for a young kid and should aid in educating them about those topics.

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    Visualizing Earth

    The painting shows our wizard with the Sun and planets at their correctly scaled sizes. As you can see, Earth is indeed much smaller than a sunspot, and smaller than the storm on Jupiter known as the Great Red Spot.

    The painting does not show the orbits of the planets on the same scale. The reason is that planets are really tiny compared to their orbits. To show the planet orbits on the same scale as the planet sizes, we’d need to make the orbits more than a thousand times as big as they are in the painting.

    You can get a better sense of what space really looks like by visiting a scale model of the solar system, such as the Voyage model in Washington, DC (photo below). There, the Sun is the size of a large grapefruit, while Earth is smaller than the ballpoint in a pen and is 15 meters (49 feet) from the model Sun. As Diego learned, Earth really does look tiny and fragile in the vastness of space.

    The Voyage model. The gold ball on the nearest pedestal is the Sun, and the other pedestals hold the planets. To learn more about Voyage, visit www.voyagesolarsystem.org.

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