{"product_id":"weather-or-climate-brod-bagert-9781732151543","title":"Weather or Climate?: Poems \u0026 Plays about Weather \u0026 Climate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeather or Climate?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eEntertaining, Instructional, and Comprehensive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeather or climate? Climate or weather?\u003cbr\u003e Not quite the same but so close together.\u003cbr\u003e Climate or weather? Weather or climate?\u003cbr\u003e The difference is simply the way that you time it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"Whether It's Weather\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the principle that children remember \"90% of what they do in dramatic presentation,\" Weather or Climate? is the fourth book in the \u003cstrong\u003eBrod Bagert's HeART of Science\u003c\/strong\u003e series--a comprehensive collection of dramatic content literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis poignant yet comical collection of dramatic poems, monologues, and short plays stimulates powerful insights into the mechanisms of everyday weather and the realities of long-term climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the outset, the Sun, too busy to appear in person, submits an affidavit in which he declares himself the BOSS--\"I expand the gases of your atmosphere and make the wind. I transform water from liquid to gas as the engine of your water cycle. I drive the currents of your oceans.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's an understandably anxious electron who narrates her journey from part of an H\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003eO molecule in a cumulonimbus ice crystal, to part of a \"swarm\" of free electrons that eventually form themselves into a lightning strike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's a clap-along chant that visits each step of the water cycle and ends with the memory anchoring \"ACCUMULATION! EVAPORATION! CONDENSATION! PRECIPITATION! H\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003eO! H\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003eO! H\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003eO! GETS NO VACATION!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith scientific accuracy and knee-slapping fun, \u003cem\u003eWeather or Climate?\u003c\/em\u003e transforms the detachment of theoretical concepts into the immediacy of imagined personal experience. The journey concludes with the voice of a person determined to accept responsibility for the future because \"... planet Earth's my home. I like it here a lot. Perfect? Not at all. But it's the only home I've got.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brod Bagert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1732151547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781732151543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Living Road Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.13d","brand":"Brod Bagert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48930315436287,"sku":"9781732151543","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weather-or-climate-brod-bagert-9781732151543","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}