Children often have seemingly endless questions about space.
This week, Education World looks at four books that answer students' questions and provide additional fascinating facts, stories, and activities to help make the study of space fun, educational, and exciting. Each of the following four books takes a different look at the study of space. He explains complex phenomena through examples and analogies drawn from everyday life. The friction that causes meteors to burn when they enter the uppermost part of Earth's atmosphere is compared to the friction created when pumping up a bicycle tire with a hand pump, which causes the pump to become hot to the touch. Paul Doherty's illustrations offer visual reinforcement of the ideas described in the text.