Introduces students in grades six through twelve to concepts in measurement, focusing on time and temperature and how they relate to the death of stars, the extinction of the dinosaurs, thermometers, freezing, and hurricanes.
Uses a question and answer format to present information about time and the seasons, such as how to split a second, who invented our calendar, and why the moon changes shapes.
Uses the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for a discussion of time and responsibility, considering the problems of how to make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare, and how to make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable.
Simple text teaches children about the concept of time, explaining how time passes and why it is important for people to pay attention to what time it is.
Introduces patterns and cycles of day and night, and describes the importance of daytime and nighttime, the length of a day, and more; and includes explanatory diagrams, glossary, and index.
An introduction to the concept of telling time in simple text with illustrations, including a list of activities that are specific to different times of day, such as lunch, school, and bed.
