Science Readers: Changing Matter
9781480746428
Changing Matter is an informational text that explores the four states of matter (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) and the ways in which the states change. The book concludes with an experiment investigating the state of gas using a bottle, water, an antacid table, and a balloon.
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 properties, compressed, physical change, and chemical change, 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.
