Science Readers: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

Balanced and Unbalanced Forces is an informational text that explores various forces such as contact forces, distant forces, and combined forces as well as the three laws of motion. The book concludes with an experiment exploring lift, gravity, and air resistance with a hair dryer, a golf ball, and tennis balls.   

The book is divided in chapters and contains a table of contents, glossary, and index.   Sentences vary in length and structure.  Information is presented by the main text, captions, labeled photographs, diagrams, and illustrations highlighting definitions and interesting facts.

Content-specific terminology such as force, magnitude, inertia, friction, air resistance, matter, atoms, and balance, is defined in context and in the glossary.

This title is from the Science Readers: Content and Literacy in Science series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.