When It's Six O'clock in San Francisco

When It's Six O'clock in San Francisco
Author: Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN: 9780547533964

When Jared wakes up in San Francisco at six o'clock in the morning, children in other parts of the world are doing other things, like going to school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, playing soccer in London, England, and eating dinner in Lahore, Pakistan, because of the difference in time zones around the globe. Includes factual material about telling time and time zones.

Science from Your Airplane Window

Science from Your Airplane Window
Author: Elizabeth A. Wood
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486232058

Describes dozens of interesting phenomena and occurrences readily observable during an airplane ride and relates them to the appropriate scientific principles.