Project X: Weather: What's the Weather Like Today?
Part of the dynamic reading programme Project X, this book is truly boy-friendly. Project X is a reading programme that has been developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.
Our planet exists within a space environment affected by constantly changing solar atmosphere producing cosmic particles and electromagnetic waves. This "space weather" profoundly influences the performance of our technology because we primarily use two means for transmitting information and energy namely, electromagnetic waves and electricity.
Cenozoic Era, Comparing Types of Rocks, Creating a Station Model, Eclipses, Formation of Coal, Fronts, Glacial Landforms, Global Heat Budget, How Minerals Form, Identifying Minerals, Igneous Rocks, Land Features Associated with a River, Life in the Open Ocean, Locating the Epicenter of An Earthquake, Location of Volcanoes, Mass Movements, Mesozoic Era, Metamorphic Rocks, Ocean Habitats, Reading a Weather Map, Sedimentary Rocks, Severe Weather, Soil Horizons, The Solar System, Space Exploration, Structure of a Volcano, Structure of the Sun, Types of Fossils, Water Use in the Home, Waves
The Golden Science Guides were instrumental in sparking my interest in science when I was a kid, and my favorite was what I called "the weather book." Though this book hails from a time when weather satellites were brand-new and El Nino meant nothing to non-Spanish speakers, it nonetheless offers much valuable information about basic concepts in meteorology, clearly explained with simple yet beautiful illustrations.
