Scholastic Atlas of Weather

by Scholastic Inc. (Contributor)

The Scholastic Atlas of Weather gives kids weather information, activities, trivia, and more. Stunning illustrations bring weather phenomena to life.

Every spread in the Scholastic Atlas of Weather contains a huge, dynamic, and colorful illustration, which shows kids exactly what causes weather to run wild. Clear, succinct captions underscore the vital scientific information kids need to fully appreciate Mother Nature's power.

In the book's first section, kids explore how Earth's location in space affects weather and climate. Topics covered Earth's position in space, Earth's atmosphere, wind, water and precipitation, temperature, and types of clouds.

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Genres: Science, Nonfiction

80 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

For more than 100 years, Scholastic has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children's books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media.

Reviews

[Courtney Lauren Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

First I would like to say how well put together this book was. There is a massive amount of information given throughout the book and yet it was still very easy to follow without getting lost in large paragraphs. The table of contents at the beginning served as a great initial reference, As you progress into the book will find amazing pictures that are part of the pages, not just a square on the page. Though there are blocks of information they are short and to the point,There are charts and diagrams on each page of the book. With that, there are many Fun Facts put in blocks among the pages.

I thought this book did a great job breaking down something as broad and unpredictable as weather.As mentioned before the illustrations, charts and graphs make the information easy to read. There are several pages throughout the book that show comparisons between different weather scenarios. It also does a great job explaining the dangers of weather and that can be very important information for younger readers to understand. The book was put together very well and it is easy to see that a lot of time and effort was put into the placement and breakdown of all of the information.

[Lissa Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource for grade 5: Weather, this atlas includes illustrations, diagrams, experiments and more. Text is focused on the facts, but with enough interesting tid-bits to keep young researchers engaged. Grades 4-7

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is marvelous for meteorologists who want to know more about weather! This is genuine to the weather science! I am STUNNED by the beauty of non-fiction, but this book not only gives a thorough guide of our world, but also advice about severe, house-wrecking storms. Very nice!

[Judy W · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unless you really like this topic, one might not read it from front to back. But it has a lot of interesting info - perhaps to look up. Illustrated.

[Ashlyn Alexander]

Summary:
This book teaches a lot about weather. It teaches about tornadoes, rainstorms, thunderstorms, snow storms and much more. It gives the audience many facts about each category of weather. It then has trivia and activities for the audience to partake in.

Person Opinion: I am not much of a nonfiction lover. I do not enjoy most non fiction books that are not about sports or something els I enjoy, but this book was interesting to read and follow along with. The illustrations were very good and fun to look at on each page. I think for a younger class room and older this would be a great book.


Classroom activity:
This book brought a lot of activity ideas into my head as I read, but then I noticed at the back of the book it has many different activities that have to do with weather. The best classroom activity would probably be one of the activities in the back of the book. If you couldn't decide you could always have the class vote on one and then do it with them infant of the classroom.