Grade 4. 2024. 52 pages. Lexile range: 700-790L. Everyday Energy reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Provide Energy to Meet Diverse Needs? Topics include: Energy at Home; Generating Electricity; Remarkable Resources; At Home with the Robots; Electrifying America; Better than Magic; and Tinkering for Tomorrow. Soft cover.

Grade 4. 2024. 52 pages. Lexile range: 700-790L. Everyday Energy literacy reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into the main activities of many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Provide Energy to Meet Diverse Needs?

Topics include:

• Energy at Home: A historical look at ways we use energy in the home (760L)
• Generating Electricity: A comparison of two ways to generate electricity (760L)
• Remarkable Resources: An introduction to the natural resources we use to generate electricity (790L)
• At Home with the Robots: A tour of NIST's net-zero energy house (760L)
• Electrifying America: A historical look at the shift to electric lighting in the US (700L)
• Better than Magic: Dr. Bill Healy and what it's like to be an engineer (760L)
• Tinkering for Tomorrow: Engineering solar-powered homes for the Solar Decathlon (730L)

The reader connects student literacy to science in the real world. Soft cover.