Kidlit Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Hit me with your best books on the weather for a seven year old who is a good reader. I’m looking to do some interest-led science with him in the coming weeks. I’d really like one nice encyclopedic selection for us to read together, but I am open to any and all suggestions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I would include Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for fun. :) I also have a nice book called Weather and Art Activities from the Science and Arty Facts set. If you can find it used, it is great to add some art to a weather study. For a spine in 2nd grade we used the Usborne First Encyclopedia of ... series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixpix5 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 We really love the Read and Learn Science level 2 or higher readers. The one on clouds was awesome and there are various other ones. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 The Weather Detectives by Mark Eubank was a hit here. It has suggestions for activities, a ton of facts, and a narrative story. Amazon has it for Kindle and our library used to have it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 The Magic School Bus and Let's Read and Find Out Titles were the biggest hits here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReadingMama1214 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 THe Magic School Bus has picture books on weather and also several chapter books focused on weather topics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fralala Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Ask Dr. K. Fisher About Weather by Claire Llewelyn What Will the Weather Be? (Let's Read and Find Out Science) and a bunch of others in this series, like Feel the Wind, Sunshine Makes the Seasons, Down Comes the Rain The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer Weather Forecasting and Weather Words by Gail Gibbons 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 The Seymour Simon books about the weather are excellent. They'd be on the advanced end for a 2nd grader, but an advanced reader might enjoy them - and they have a nice layout with largeish type facing a large photo on each page spread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sk8ermaiden Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 My daughter LOVES these books. https://www.amazon.com/Weather-Usborne-Beginners-Level-2/dp/0794512534/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508876977&sr=8-1&keywords=usborne+weather https://www.amazon.com/Storms-Hurricanes-Usborne-Beginners-Emily/dp/0794533507/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508877085&sr=1-1&keywords=usborne+hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 The Weather Pop-Up Book by Francis Wilson, Illustrated by Philip Jacobs. It has passed repeated purges of old books and remains here on shelf (ds now 15yo) to tell you about it. Lots of informational text, and the pop-ups pull outs and so on, help to understand the things it is explaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Starting on page 780 The Handbook of Nature Study has a lengthy section on weather. https://archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp Starting on 424 Shuttlesworth Exploring Nature has a section on weather https://archive.org/stream/exploringnaturew00shutrich#page/426/mode/2up http://arvindguptatoys.com Click on "English" Scroll about half way down to the Asimov books or search using "Control f" I only see one weather book so will link directly How Did We find Out About the Atmosphere? http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/asimovatmosphere.pdf "control f" for weather brings up a few more books. Try other words that have to do with weather like "rain" and "snow". Mostly literature will come up, but...you never know what you will get. The Anneneberg site is always a good place to search for free science stuff. There is some sort of interactive storm chaser activity and I don't know what else there is. http://www.learner.org/interactives/weather/act_tornado/citymap.php?fc=i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) I just recently learned you can borrow newer books from archive.org. Here are the search results for "weather" https://archive.org/search.php?query=weather and filtered for just weather books https://archive.org/search.php?query=weather&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&page=2 Here is the description and instructions on how to borrow books. To just read in the browser, all I needed was an e-mail address. Nothing else. Downloading a book is more involved and invasive. https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/25/lending-launches-on-archive-org/ Edited October 24, 2017 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacus2 Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 https://www.movingbeyondthepage.com/purchase/unitdetail.aspx?unitID=274 We really enjoyed this weather unit study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Rebecca Rupp's Weather! was our favorite early on. https://www.amazon.com/Weather-Rebecca-Rupp/dp/1580174205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508987064&sr=8-1&keywords=Rebecca+rupp+weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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