Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

With upbeat text and playful illustrations, readers can follow along as a class meets a firefighter and learns what firefighters do.

What's the difference between climate and weather?

Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew hoped to be first to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, until their ship became trapped in the ice and began to sink.

Why is it sunny outside one day and rainy the next?

A spark from a lightning strike or a campfire can quickly grow into a wildfire covering acres.

Watch spring bloom and discover where flowers grow-on trees and bushes as well as in fields and gardens.

Trying to breeze through weather and climate facts just might cause a brain freeze!

Extreme storms like hurricanes and blizzards are happening more often.

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Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

A little duckling enjoys a spring rain shower.

You probably know that electricity powers your computer and other electronics.

What do you see when it rains?

Australia is a large and diverse nation.

With upbeat text and playful illustrations, readers can follow along as a class meets a firefighter and learns what firefighters do.

What can you do in the winter?

What does it mean to forecast the weather?

Wind is moving air.

Being forced from home is something no one wants to experience.

¿Sabías que la luz del sol que calienta tu piel en un día soleado se puede utilizar para producir energía?

Fossil fuels heat our homes.

Quietly, without most people noticing, the population of giraffes in the wild has decreased by nearly 40 percent since 1985.

Palabras e ilustraciones divertidas muestran cómo cambian las hojas durante las estaciones.

Rocks can be made of many different minerals.

A young boy ventures out after a snowstorm to look at the snow.

When a tornado's funnel-shaped cloud touches the ground, extreme winds destroy everything in its path.

A pilot flies over, under, in, out, and through the clouds in this brightly illustrated title.

Solids, liquids, and gases are the three states of matter.

It's a sunny fall day in Maya's neighborhood, and all her neighbors are busy with outdoor activities, from releasing some young butterflies to organizing a birthday scavenger hunt.

Soil can be found almost everywhere on Earth.

What do you like best about summer?

Crafty readers will delight in celebrating Earth Day by making age-appropriate, Earth-themed projects from odds and ends they already have!

Explore the effects of wind on leaves, sailboats, umbrellas, and kites.

Forests create the air we need to breathe.

Surfer Bethany Hamilton paddled out into the ocean for a early morning session with friends.

Around the world, busy roads and highways block animal paths.

What steps can you take to help the environment?

Make a robot from a toothbrush, send Morse code messages by telegraph, and create your own lightning!

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What can you engineer from recycled materials?

Fun illustrations and informative text show readers how the weather can change in fall.

Science stars can transform recycled materials into science-themed crafts.

Earthquakes happen when big plates of earth slide past one another.

Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals.

La Tierra está compuesta en casi un 70 % por agua.

Earth has a trash problem.

Rising temperatures around the globe put animals at risk.

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People, animals, machines, and wind all make sounds.

You know that magnets hold pictures on a refrigerator.