13 Books about Weather for Elementary Science Lessons
Weather is always a fascinating topic for students. They see it happening all around them and want to understand how it works and what causes our weather. These 13 books on weather and climate will give students a better understanding of how the world works around us regarding weather and our climate on different parts of the Earth!
Weather & Climate Science Books
A fascinating look at the wild weather of our world in a colorful and engaging book. This book is filled with interesting facts and an in-depth look at the weather.
Students will find amazing photographs in this book that will get them interested in learning as much as possible about weather phenomena.
Climate – Torrey Maloof
Grade: 3-6
This book helps students learn about the science behind our climate, as well as build their literacy skills and reading comprehension.
This book includes simple, hands-on science experiments and supports STEM education.
What Will the Weather Be? – Linda Dewitt
Grade: PreK-3
This fun and entertaining picture book explores weather prediction with rich climate vocabulary and clear explanations of everyday weather instruments.
Give students a closer look at how we predict weather and how weather impacts our daily lives.
Tracking the Weather – Monika Davies
Grade: 3-6
This is another book that helps with literacy skills, as well as the science behind tracking the weather, including hands-on science experiments throughout.
Weather – World Book
Grade: K-3
In this book, students will learn about the weather of different seasons with colorful illustrations and detailed photographs that show real-world examples. This book also includes puzzle pages, fun facts, and true/false quizzes.
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Weather – Karen de Seve
Grade: PreK-3
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They’ll learn about all of the different weather systems and how they work. This book features over 100 colorful, real-world photos.
Freddy the Frogcaster – Janice Dean
Grade: PreK-3
This delightful tale follows Freddy the frog, who is an aspiring weather forecaster.
Students will love the fun science lessons he shares, along with the activities in the back of this book.
The Everything Kids’ Weather Book – Joe Snedeker
Grade: 2-7
An exciting look into all of the action that happens in the sky. This book comes with hundreds of exciting facts and 30+ fun weather puzzles and games.
Learn about everything from clouds to storms, to how to build your own weather station.
How the Weather Works – Christiane Dorion
Grade: 2-5
This engaging book explores the world’s weather with bright, friendly illustrations, pop-ups, pull tabs, and booklets. Students will also explore how humans can influence Earth’s climate.
The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge – Joanna Cole
Grade: K-3
Ms. Frizzle shares fun facts about climate in a fun and informative way. The bright, action-filled illustrations make science easy to understand and fun to learn.
Miss Mingo Weathers the Storm – Jamie Harper
Grade: PreK-3
This fun story follows Miss Mingo and her class on a trip to visit the weather station as they encounter some crazy atmospheric changes.
Sprinkled with fascinating facts about weather and animal habits, too.
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather – Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Grade: PreK-3
This fun story explores old, outdated and sometimes silly myths about what causes the weather and new discoveries that have made meteorology what it is today.
Studying Weather and Climates – Conrad J. Storad
Grade: 2-3
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These books are filled with fun weather and climate filled scientific facts and information. Students will love diving into these books and learning all there is to know about these two important aspects of life on Earth.
More Information about Teaching Weather & Climate
In addition to these books about weather and climate, the Third Grade Science Stations and 5E Lesson Plans on Weather and Climate have taken the guesswork out of how to plan what to teach for science.
The focus of the Weather and Climate is on NGSS 3.ESS2.D & 3-ESS3.B and includes concepts about climate zones, meteorolgist tools, weather maps, and much more.
Also available is a new 5E Unit about Weather and a 5E Unit about Climate. The weather unit represents data to describe typical weather conditions during a particular season. Throughout the unit, students look at weather across different times and different areas so that they can make predictions about what kind of weather might happen next. They explore how scientists predict the weather using a variety of tools and how scientists keep track of weather patterns.
The climate unit is an inquiry-based unit where students obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. Throughout the unit, students look at how to describe a range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the variations of those conditions.
You can see more in-depth information about the Third Grade Science Stations in this blog post. More information about the 5E Science Stations.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ve been wanting more age-appropriate books about climate.
Jan