Examines weather patterns, storms, and forecasting. Additional information is provided on how to measure the temperature and how to prevent overexposure from the sun.
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.
Introduces the concept of temperature measurement through a story in which a boy watches the weather while waiting for the day of his pool party to arrive.
Explains how melting and freezing changes the forms of liquid and solids, what causes melting and freezing, and how water can exist as a liquid, solid, and gas.
Describes how living things, especially animals and human beings, adapt to environmental temperature changes, in order to conserve heat in cold weather and lose it in hot weather.
