Earth Science K–8 · Grade 4 · Ages 9–10

Grade 4 Earth Science: Weather and Water

A year of true stories about the sky and the sea, from Torricelli’s tube of mercury and Luke Howard’s names for the clouds to the Galveston hurricane, the Blizzard of 1888, the Johnstown Flood and Matthew Fontaine Maury’s “paths of the seas,” each one taken apart to see how the weather works and then measured, tested and recorded with jars, balloons, thermometers and a field notebook at the kitchen table and in the backyard.