Experiment With Weather [Library Binding]

Miranda Bower (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1993 | Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Experiment With

Provides an introduction to meteorological phenomena and includes experiments describing various aspects of our weather, such as clouds, wind, fog, and rainbows.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-While books on weather experiments are popular, this one is simple to the point of being misleading. It consists of many photographs and illustrations, each one captioned with two or three sentences. The "experiments" consist of a single photo and a few sentences describing an activity, not an experiment. The photos are clear and colorful, but the drawings are rather crude. Sketches of different kinds of clouds are indistinct. The text is equally unhelpful. For example, the statement that "thunder is the sound created by a lightning flash" does little to enlighten readers as to what happens in a thunder storm. The activity on the facing page shows a girl sticking balloons on the wall using static electricity, but leaves out any definition of it or its relationship to the electricity in a thunderstorm. Stick with the Weather volume in the "Eyewitness" series, Simple Weather Experiments with Everyday Materials (Sterling, 1990) by Muriel Mandell, and Jonathan Kahl's "How's the Weather?" series (Lerner).
Janet K. Hamilton, Museum of Science, Boston
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group (L) (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822524589
• ISBN-13: 978-0822524588
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,537,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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