Science Readers: Transferring Energy

Transferring Energy is an expository text that explores the different types of energy and how energy is transferred. The book concludes with an experiment exploring solar 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 energy, work, kinetic energy, potential energy, sound wave, radiation, conduction, and convection 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.