body temperature

Discusses different ways people keep cool in the summer, including spending time in the shade, sweating, using fans and air conditioners, swimming, staying hydrated, and eating cold foods. Includes a list of further resources, a glossary, and a list of words used in the text that help children become better readers.

What's the body's largest organ? Why do you need a liver? How does the eye see? It's time to wise up about the human body.

Photographs and text depict how fur, feathers, and blubber keep animals warm in cold weather.

Photographs and simple text look at how polar bears and penguins are able to maintain their body heat in cold temperatures.

Describes how living things, especially animals and human beings, adapt to environmental temperature changes, in order to conserve heat in cold weather and lose it in hot weather.

Identifies the ways humans and animals adapt to changes in temperature and compares and contrasts these behaviors. Includes color illustrations and a glossary.

Explains how temperature can be measured, conduction and convection, radiation, how our bodies regulate heat, ways to help buildings retain heat and more.

Explains how the body regulates its temperature and what happens when we get a fever.

Photographs and text depict how fur, feathers, and blubber keep animals warm in cold weather.