Weather Words and What They Mean Book

Generalizes so much that it's not true. I think it would be obvious even to elementary students.

"The weather is hardly ever the same from day to day. That's why it is so interesting". (Examples are people going swimming at the beach because it's so hot and then people wearing coats because it's so cold. Temperature change that drastic DOES happen, sometimes, but it's relatively rare.) On the very next page it gives examples of a desert in Chile where it hasn't rained in 400 years and Kauai where it rains 350 days a year. Do you think "the weather is hardly ever the same from day to day" in those places? Even in not-as-extreme Oklahoma, it's pretty easy to predict the weather in July -- it'll be hot, sunny, and dry. Day-to-day change at certain times of year is minimal.

The author refers to thunderstorms as scary. I don't think this is an idea you want to plant in kids' minds. Some will find it scary on their own and some won't.

"The position of the sun is what causes temperature change." Um, warm and cold fronts have something to do with it, too.



I feel like each two page spread is trying to be a poster that could be on a classroom wall.