Experiment With Weather (Experiment With)

Features

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Published by: Lerner Publishing Group December 1993
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0822524589
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822524588
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 9.2 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 12.8 ounces

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 photographs 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.

Book Description
A wonderful way for kids to experience the magic of science. The "Experiment With" series offers simple experiments that help children test and observe basic scientific principles. The whole family can get involved with these experiments, which are explained clearly and with the help of colorful photos. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.