Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas

Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas

by Mary Kay Carson
Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas

Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas

by Mary Kay Carson

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Overview

From the everyday phenomena of wind and clouds to the awesome, destructive power of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes, children can explore weather in detail with this fascinating science activity book. Throughout the text instructions for building weather-measuring tools—barometers, psychrometers, anemometers, wind vanes, rain gauges, and thermometers—allow the reader to assemble them into a working weather station. More than 40 weather projects are included, such as building a model of the water cycle, creating a tornado in a bottle, calculating dew point, and reading a weather map. Most of the experiments also include ideas for expanding them into full-fledged science fair projects. Weather-related environmental issues are also addressed, such as global climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain, as well as profiles of scientists working in the field of meteorology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781556526299
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/01/2007
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.32(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Mary Kay Carson has written more than 15 nonfiction books for children, including Exploring the Solar System, The Underground Railroad for Kids, and The Wright Brothers for Kids.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     ix
The Air Around Us     1
Atmospheric Poster     4
Air Is Everywhere     5
Balancing Balloons     6
Pressure vs. Pencil     7
Build a Weather Station: Barometer     10
Hurricane Swirl     16
Screening out the Sun     20
Sun and Seasons     23
Telling Time by the Sun     24
Sun Prints     28
Reason for Seasons     29
Light Strength     31
What Warms More?     32
Build a Weather Station: Thermometer     35
Full of Hot Air     41
Hothouse Heat Up     46
Clouds and Rain     51
Cycling Water     53
Powerful Changes     55
Build a Weather Station: Rain Gauge     57
Homemade Rainbow     59
Sleet vs. Snow     60
Make Snow Globes     61
Rain Prints     62
Do the Dew Point     63
Make Frost     64
Build a Weather Station: Psychrometer     66
Frame a Cloud     70
Track Cloudy Weather     71
Static Sensor     76
Testing for Trouble     80
Wind     83
Reading the Wind     86
Build a Weather Station: Anemometer     89
Feeling the Chill     90
Build a Weather Station: Wind Vane     91
The Power of Wind     95
Worldly Wind Poems     97
Tornado in a Bottle     101
Inverting Air     105
Trap Pollution Particles     107
Weather Watching and Forecasting     109
Build a Weather Station: Put It All Together!     115
Test a Forecast     120
Mapping It Out     120
Winter Warnings     124
Water Warm Up     126
Glossary     129
Weather Web Sites     131
Index     133
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