The news stations have been doing many reports on this winter's unusual weather. Flood waters are rising due to record rainfall. Tornadoes have ripped through unsuspecting communities. In other places, temperatures are unseasonably mild.
Children are both curious and fearful about extreme weather.
They want to know how thunder, lightning and tornadoes form. These questions provide a perfect opportunity for children to read about weather. He stresses that weather can remind us that everything on earth is linked together. The air is freshened by great forests, which take in carbon dioxide and give back oxygen. Energy from the sun makes all life on earth possible.