An introduction to meteorology that focuses on aspects of the Earth's atmosphere, covering global weather patterns and water in the atmosphere, and explaining the layers of the atmosphere, factors that influence weather, the flow of solar energy, and related topics.
Describes the unique features of Venus, its place in the solar system, its makeup, and how scientists have learned about the planet through space missions or other research.
Describes the unique features of Neptune, its place in the solar system, its makeup, and how scientists have learned about the planet through space missions or other research.
Describes the unique features of Venus, its place in the solar system, its makeup, and how scientists have learned about the planet through space missions or other research.
Describes the unique features of Neptune, its place in the solar system, its makeup, and how scientists have learned about the planet through space missions or other research.
multidisciplinary challenges for cooperative team-building and competition
Fleisher, Paul
2006
A program for fourth through eighth graders, which presents twelve multidisciplinary engineering challenges for student teams to solve in competition and provides introductory teamwork exercises, ten warm-up problems, scoring rubrics, tips for teachers and coaches, and a competition administration checklist.
Text, illustrations, and photographs provide information about terms, from abiotic and flood plain to oil spill and zooplankton, related to a wide range of environmental concerns.
A compilation of thinking games requiring intelligence skills, in such categories as "Spatial Orientation and Strategy Games," "Alignment Games," "Capture Games," "Maze Games," "Mathematical Games," and "Word Games.".
