• This digital book is set on the coast of Sri Lanka, where a boy named Adesh learns from his oceanographer neighbor about climate change, sea level rise, biodiversity loss, and unhealthy living conditions for sea life. 
• Students will learn about solutions to climate change and what they can do to make a difference. 

Positives

• The book contains helpful pronunciation guides for Sri Lankan names, a world map, and a glossary.
• Women are depicted in the roles of oceanographer and fisher, countering the stereotype that certain professions are for men.

Additional Prerequisites

• Though this book may be read as a stand-alone book, it is the sixth in a series of books from ClimateScience.

Differentiation

• Older students could use this to reactivate knowledge about greenhouse gases and how they cause climate change.
• Younger students could use this story as inspiration for a drawing of themselves doing one of the activities that Methuli suggests can help fight climate change.
• Students could draw a cause and effect diagram to show the actions that are affecting the ocean.
• Students could also read this interactive storybook introduction to climate change.
  

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