Science today

Photographs, diagrams, and text explain what causes the weather, the seasons, and how to predict the weather.

Photographs, illustrations, and text describe what radiation is and explain the different types of radiation.

Introduces the various aspects of sound, what it is, how it is made, and how it is detected by the ear.

Discusses how heat makes things expand and how energy changes from one form to another.

Photographs, diagrams, and text explain the structure and materials of man-made and natural objects in the everyday world.

An introduction to the solar system including information on the sun, moons, planets and stars. Also includes instructions for making a solar system mobile.

Describes the properties and uses of chemicals, how a solid changes to a liquid or gas, and how chemicals combine to make substances we use every day.

Explores how electricity and magnetism are closely related and how together they produce the electric current that we use every day to provide heat, light, and power.

Demonstrates how natural, elastic, and centripetal forces cause changes in the shape and direction of things.

Traces the history of the Earth, how movements in its surface produce mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes, and what causes the seasons, tides, and patterns of night and day.