Weather Projects
for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas. Mary Kay
Carson. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, Distributed by Independent Publishers
Group, 2007. Pp. 144. $14.95, paper. ISBN-10: 1-55652-629-6. ISBN-13: 978-7-55652-629-9:
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Weather affects children every day, from determining which clothes they will
wear to whether or not they will be able to play a game of sports or—in
some extreme cases—even attend classes. Even so, for most children,
how weather works is a mystery.
This book, written for children aged 9-12, is designed to help kids explore
weather in detail, from the everyday phenomena of wind and clouds to the awesome,
destructive power of lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes. It includes more
than 40 weather projects, such as building a model of the water cycle, creating
a tornado in a bottle, calculating dew point, reading a weather map, and more.
Using this book, children can build weather measuring tools such as a barometer,
a psychrometer, an anemometer, a wind vane, a rain gauge, and a thermometer,
and then assemble them into a working weather station.
Most of the experiments in the book include ideas for expanding them into
science fair projects. The book includes profiles of scientists working in
the field of meteorology and explores weather-related environmental issues
such as global climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain.
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