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What's in the USA 2022 Hanson Box

WHAT’S IN THE 2022 USA HANSON BOX

The 2022 USA Hanson Box is the result of a partnership between the Avangrid Foundation, the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation and the Jane Goodall Institute USA Roots & Shoots movement.

In September, 2022, we will be sending one resource box to each of 2,500 schools across the USA for the benefit of tens of thousands of American students.

The 2022 USA Hanson Box contains four specially-designed resources that cover a broad range of subjects in the national curriculum, including biology, English, art, geography, history, ecology, environmental sciences and natural history.

Each box contains:

– Incredible Earth -The World’s Most Spectacular Geography

This 160 page book explores the most spectacular and unusual landscapes, geographic features and phenomena on Earth. It is intended to excite and awe young minds and inspire the next generation of explorers and geographers.

– What On Earth? The Creatures You Have Never Heard Of!

This book showcases several hundred animals that most children will likely have never heard of. All children are familiar with about 30 key animal species: cats, dogs, horses, rabbits etc., but what about the 1.5 million or so other animal species on Earth, e.g. Okapi, agoutis, cologus etc.? This book is intended to broaden the imagination of children and encourage curiosity and appreciation of the natural world!

– Incredible Universe Volume 1: The Solar System

A 160 page book that explores the wonders of solar system. The book opens with an overview of our understanding of the observable universe and then explores our solar system, examining each planet systematically and in turn. The closing chapters of the book focus on the astonishing accomplishments of recent years exploring Mars, and a look towards the next chapter of space exploration. This book is designed to make physics, astronomy and maths classes come alive!

– What on Earth? The Plants You’ve Never Heard Of!

Forget pansies and daffodils, this book explores the unbelievable plants that call our world home! From flowers over 2 metres tall, to carnivorous plants that catch animals as big as rats. As we journey through the most amazing members of the plant world, we’ll meet the world’s smelliest flowers, plants with iridescent blue leaves, deadly plants, sensitive plants (with leaves that move), the world’s weirdest blooms and countless other amazing members of the plant world! Discover plants as you have never seen them before!

An overview of the contents is provided below.

 

Incredible Earth - The World's Most Spectacular Geography

Author: Stewart McPherson
ISBN: 978-1-913631-02-4
Pages: 160
Images: 400
Page size: 240 x 285 mm
Cover format: Hardcover

The geography of Planet Earth is incredible.

From lava lakes, rainbow mountains, auroras, lost world mountains, glowing bioluminescent waters, blood falls, mud volcanoes and blue holes in the ocean.

Over 160 pages that are filled with breath-taking imagery, this book explores the world’s most spectacular and unusual landscapes, geographic features and phenomena.

Incredible Earth opens with a brief overview of the paleo-history of the formation of our planet, followed by an overview of the geological structure of our world, an introduction to the vastness of geological time and a summary of amazing facts about Earth.

The remaining 145 pages are dedicated to exploring 36 extraordinary geographic subjects and showcasing the secrets, beauty and wonder that they hold. Many of these geographic subjects that are featured remain little-known and little-documented in other works.

Filled with facts and up-to-date with recent discoveries, findings and research, Incredible Earth showcases many of the greatest wonders of Planet Earth.

This book was created for a single purpose: excite curiosity, awe and wonder in young minds, to inspire the next generation of explorers, geographers, geologists and naturalists.

What on Earth? The Creatures You Have Never Heard Of!

Author: Stewart McPherson
ISBN: 978-1-913631-00-0
Pages: 160
Images: 400
Page size: 240 x 285 mm
Cover format: Hardcover

What is your favourite animal? A rabbit, a cat or a dog? Maybe an elephant, a lion or a tiger?

…or perhaps an okapi, a jerboa or a pangolin… or one of the 1.5 million other animal species that call this world home?

Discover the amazing animals you have never heard of! From iridescent-rainbow snakes to transparent ‘glass fish’, metre-long giant salamanders, flying frogs, poisonous birds, fish that crawl onto land, sea slugs that photosynthesise and mammals that lay eggs!

What on Earth? explores over 90 groups of unusual but amazing creatures that will astound young readers. Each animal group is depicted through beautiful imagery and documented through easy-to-read by detailed text that is filled with interesting facts and information.

The opening pages of this work provide an overview of life on Earth, its context in paleo-history, the taxonomy of organisms that exist today, an overview of the main terrestrial and aquatic biomes, and detailed sections on the key animal groups covered here (amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals and reptiles).

What on Earth? will fascinate young readers interested in nature, geography, biology and conservation. It is intended to inspire awe at the diversity of the natural world and the variety of the organisms that call our Earth home.

Incredible Earth - The World's Most Spectacular Geography

Author: Stewart McPherson
ISBN: 978-1-913631-02-4
Pages: 160
Images: 400
Page size: 240 x 285 mm
Cover format: Hardcover

The geography of Planet Earth is incredible.

From lava lakes, rainbow mountains, auroras, lost world mountains, glowing bioluminescent waters, blood falls, mud volcanoes and blue holes in the ocean.

Over 160 pages that are filled with breath-taking imagery, this book explores the world’s most spectacular and unusual landscapes, geographic features and phenomena.

Incredible Earth opens with a brief overview of the paleo-history of the formation of our planet, followed by an overview of the geological structure of our world, an introduction to the vastness of geological time and a summary of amazing facts about Earth.

The remaining 145 pages are dedicated to exploring 36 extraordinary geographic subjects and showcasing the secrets, beauty and wonder that they hold. Many of these geographic subjects that are featured remain little-known and little-documented in other works.

Filled with facts and up-to-date with recent discoveries, findings and research, Incredible Earth showcases many of the greatest wonders of Planet Earth.

This book was created for a single purpose: excite curiosity, awe and wonder in young minds, to inspire the next generation of explorers, geographers, geologists and naturalists.

What on Earth? The Plants You've Never Heard Of!

Authors: Stewart McPherson
ISBN: 978-1-913631-07-9
Pages: 160
Images: 620
Page size: 240 x 285 (landscape)
Cover format: Hardcover

What is your favourite plant? A rose, a tulip or a fern?

Or perhaps a carnivorous plant that catches rats, a skull-shaped flower or an electric blue begonia… or one of the 375,000 other plants of our world?

From the Darth Vader begonia, to the weird bat flower, parasitic Rhizanthes (the stuff of nightmares!), to snake fruit, iridescent-leaved plants that shimmer blue to the stained glass window plant, sensitive plants (whose leaves move) to greenhouse plants! Read about ancient dragon’s blood trees, ghost pipes, living fossils, quiver trees, window plants, ice plants, the world’s tallest trees, the oldest plant on earth, gigantic Rafflesia and Amorphophallus blooms, stinky starfish flowers and durians, as well as the bizarre voodoo lily, and an astonishing rainbow of carnivorous plants that catch and eat insect as well as other small animals!

Discover the world’s most spectacular and amazing plants you have never heard of!

REQUEST A BOX FOR YOUR SCHOOL!

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Requests will close at the end of July, 2022.

We will send the resource boxes during September, 2022.

About the USA 2022 Hanson Box

The 2022 USA Hanson Box is the result of a partnership between the Avangrid Foundation, the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation and the Jane Goodall Institute USA Roots & Shoots movement.