Science Readers: Circuits

Circuits is an expository text that explores the concepts of electricity, simple circuits, digital circuits, series circuits, parallel circuits, complex circuits, how to control circuits, and batteries. The book includes experiments exploring measuring amps, comparing parallel and series circuits, and using a lemon to power a lightbulb.

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, sidebars, labeled photographs, and illustrations highlighting definitions and interesting facts.

Content-specific terminology such as circuits, current, voltage, amperes, digital, conductor, insulator, and amplifiers 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.