STC™ Program - Science and Technology Concepts STC BOOKS™ are colorful 64-page readers with research-based science content, giving teachers an ideal way to integrate science instruction during guided, independent, or take-home reading. Teachers use STC™ science curriculum materials to enhance elementary classrooms, increase student test scores, and meet national and state educational standards.

Grades 5-6. Magnets and Motors focuses on electricity, magnetism, and how the 2 work together, which has led to the invention of useful devices such as electric motors and generators. In this book students learn how the force of magnetism was discovered and how some animals-the loggerhead turtle, for example-use this force to navigate great distances. Students also read about scientists and inventors harnessing the power of magnetism to help bring electricity to broad areas-and what happens when this power fails.