Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     ix
The Air Around Us     1
Atmospheric Poster     4
Air Is Everywhere     5
Balancing Balloons     6
Pressure vs. Pencil     7
Build a Weather Station: Barometer     10
Hurricane Swirl     16
Screening out the Sun     20
Sun and Seasons     23
Telling Time by the Sun     24
Sun Prints     28
Reason for Seasons     29
Light Strength     31
What Warms More?     32
Build a Weather Station: Thermometer     35
Full of Hot Air     41
Hothouse Heat Up     46
Clouds and Rain     51
Cycling Water     53
Powerful Changes     55
Build a Weather Station: Rain Gauge     57
Homemade Rainbow     59
Sleet vs. Snow     60
Make Snow Globes     61
Rain Prints     62
Do the Dew Point     63
Make Frost     64
Build a Weather Station: Psychrometer     66
Frame a Cloud     70
Track Cloudy Weather     71
Static Sensor     76
Testing for Trouble     80
Wind     83
Reading the Wind     86
Build a Weather Station: Anemometer     89
Feeling the Chill     90
Build a Weather Station: Wind Vane     91
The Power of Wind     95
Worldly Wind Poems     97
Tornado in a Bottle     101
Inverting Air     105
Trap Pollution Particles     107
Weather Watching and Forecasting     109
Build a Weather Station: Put It All Together!     115
Test a Forecast     120
Mapping It Out     120
Winter Warnings     124
Water Warm Up     126
Glossary     129
Weather Web Sites     131
Index     133