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Encourage curiosity and problem solving!
K-5th Grade
Tuesdays; 4:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The world's oceans play a key role in regulating and redistributing heat, as well as storing large amounts of heat and carbon. Filmed in Ireland, this program investigates the Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt that moves warm water north and maintains Ireland’s mild climate and looks at research monitoring changes in the gulf stream. It introduces scientists at Ireland's Met Éireann research center who are using supercomputers to produce climate models....
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Stopping the rolling masses of snow that form avalanches is impossible and it's still difficult, although not impossible, to forecast avalanches. This program travels to the world's largest center for avalanche research - the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos - where scientists are investigating the conditions that cause snowpacks to break and the impact climate change is having on the formation and nature of avalanches. The...
3) Ocean Souls
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
This emotive documentary on cetaceans, featuring possibly the largest diversity ever seen on film, highlights new scientific discoveries about these whales, dolphins, and porpoises. With footage from over 100 filmmakers and input from over 25 scientists who work in this field, it examines their emotions, language, social organization, intelligence, and human interaction.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Put the fun back into learning and take children on a number-crunching journey around our incredible planet. From microscopic minerals to majestic mountains and everything in between, learn all about planet Earth with more than 1,000 weird and wonderful numbers. Our World in Numbers: Planet Earth will have you impressing your family and friends like never before with mind-blowing figures behind rising sea levels, the gradual...
5) Weather
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the weather in this leveled reader! TIME for Kids helps young readers develop critical reading skills at any age and understand how to engage with the world around them. Have you ever wondered how rain drops form and fall from the sky? Or why some snowflakes stick to the ground while others melt away instantly? Or if the wind can be strong enough to blow buildings away? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this photo-filled...
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
See below the surface of Earth and discover the secrets that lie beneath our feet in this fascinating book about Earth. Author Dr. Lucía Pérez-Díaz offers budding young Earth scientists aged 7-9 everything they need to decode the puzzle that is planet Earth. On a journey like no other, children will learn what our planet was once like, how and why it has changed, and what the future may hold. They will adventure through earthquakes and over towering...
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