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Overview
You probably don't pay much attention to the weather unless it's doing something you don't like, such as a thunderstorm ruining your picnic or humidity doing a number on your hair. In Weather and Climate, Discovery Channel gives you a close look at the extremes of weather -- from fair-weather clouds to the destructive forces of hurricanes and tornadoes.Explores different kinds of weather, including hurricanes, tornadoes, and other storms.
Synopsis
You probably don't pay much attention to the weather unless it's doing something you don't like, such as a thunderstorm ruining your picnic or humidity doing a number on your hair. In Weather and Climate, Discovery Channel gives you a close look at the extremes of weather -- from fair-weather clouds to the destructive forces of hurricanes and tornadoes.
Micki S. Nevett - Children's Literature
A great deal of information is presented about different types of weather, how it can be predicted, and how destructive extreme weather may be. The format is nonlinear, with boxes, charts and appropriate illustrations throughout. Each spread utilizes a different style—including Q and A, "at a glance", map, scientist's notebook—with the final page being "your world, your turn" with a follow up-project the reader might be inspired to attempt. This is an attractive resource suitable for browsing with numerous "sound bites" of information. It even includes a feature about Wilson "snowflake" Bentley. However, since many of the chapter headings have clever titles, ("Desolation Row," "Where the Penguins Roam") the inclusion of an index would have been extremely helpful. Advanced students will want something a bit meatier for more serious research. Weather and Climate is another addition to the "Discovery Channel School Science Series, Set IV: Our Planet Earth." 2004, Gareth Stevens Publishing/A World Almanac Education Group, Ages 9 to 11.
Editorials
Children's Literature
A great deal of information is presented about different types of weather, how it can be predicted, and how destructive extreme weather may be. The format is nonlinear, with boxes, charts and appropriate illustrations throughout. Each spread utilizes a different style—including Q and A, "at a glance", map, scientist's notebook—with the final page being "your world, your turn" with a follow up-project the reader might be inspired to attempt. This is an attractive resource suitable for browsing with numerous "sound bites" of information. It even includes a feature about Wilson "snowflake" Bentley. However, since many of the chapter headings have clever titles, ("Desolation Row," "Where the Penguins Roam") the inclusion of an index would have been extremely helpful. Advanced students will want something a bit meatier for more serious research. Weather and Climate is another addition to the "Discovery Channel School Science Series, Set IV: Our Planet Earth." 2004, Gareth Stevens Publishing/A World Almanac Education Group, Ages 9 to 11.—Micki S. Nevett