Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

Animals and plants all over the world are struggling to survive.

Sharks-sleek, fast-moving predators with powerful jaws-can take care of themselves, right?

The dry ground cracks.

An older sister encourages her younger brother, Carlos, to watch a fascinating lightning storm.

What is a powerful weather tool?

Minerals are fascinating resources that have a variety of uses.

What can you engineer from recycled materials?

On Earth Day, we find ways to help the Earth.

Animal lovers will adore these hands-on projects, which use recycled materials to make animal-themed crafts.

The sun glows and glimmers.

Imagine facing a storm so vast you can only see it all from space, or winds that uproot trees and hurl cars in the air.

El cambio climatico esta danando el planeta.

Los bosques producen el aire que necesitamos para respirar.

If the groundhog sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.

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?

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.

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

A little duckling enjoys a spring rain shower.

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.

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!

What can you engineer from recycled materials?

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