Science Readers: Conservation of Energy
9781480747234
Conservation of Energy is an expository text that explores the different types and forms of energy, how energy is transformed, and the Laws of Thermodynamics. The book concludes with an experiment exploring how an object’s height affects its energy.
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 thermodynamics, potential energy, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, chemical energy, and entropy 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.
