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Science Readers: Electricity
Electricity is an expository text that explores the history of the study of electricity, how electricity is created, circuits, power grids, conductors, insulators, and resistors. The book concludes with an activity involving creating an electric circuit...
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Science Readers: Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is an informational text that explores the concepts of electromagnetism, currents, circuits, and electricity. The book concludes with an experiment that involves building an electromagnet using a battery, copper wire, paper clips, and a...
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Science Readers: Energy
Energy is an informational text that explores different kinds of energy and the forces it creates. The book concludes with an experiment that involves using different sized marbles to investigate the transfer of energy. The book...
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Science Readers: Energy in Action
Energy in Action is an informational text that explores potential energy, kinetic energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, electrical energy, and transferring energy through heat, light, and work. The book concludes with an activity involving exploring...
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Science Readers: Environment: A World of Change
Environment: A World of Change is an informational text that describes how land, water, and air are always changing. Many examples of change are provided, such as the water cycle, the rock cycle, volcanoes and earthquakes, fires and floods,...
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Science Readers: Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather is an informational text that explains tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, and blizzards, as well as how to prepare for wild weather. A two-page experiment invites students to explore how a tornado moves. The book is divided...
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Science Readers: Food Webs
Food Webs is an informational text that explains how producers, consumers, and decomposers interact in a web that allows food energy to fuel life on earth. A two-page activity invites students to explore how a change in one...
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Science Readers: Forces
Forces is an informational text that explores push and pull forces such as gravity, friction, magnetism, and buoyancy. The book concludes with an experiment investigating different forces using balloons and a bucket of water. The book is divided...
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Science Readers: Friction
Friction is an informational text that explores how friction is created and the ways in which we use friction in our everyday lives. The book concludes with an experiment investigating the amount of friction created by different surfaces...
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Science Readers: From Hubble to Hubble - Astronomers and Outer Space
From Hubble to Hubble Astronomers and Outer Space is an expository nonfiction text that explores the history of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, observatory builder George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and pulsars. The text includes a section on geologist Joy...
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Science Readers: Global Warming
Global Warming is an expository text that explains weather, climate, the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, causes and effects of global warming, and how to slow global warming. An experiment invites students to explore how...
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Science Readers: Gravity
Gravity is an informational text that explores the concept of gravity, including the difference between weight and mass, inertia, and the effects of gravity on the earth and space. The book concludes with an experiment exploring the relationship...