Grade 3. 2020. 60 pages. Lexile range: 500-790L. Motion and Magnets 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 Use Patterns to Predict Motion? Topics include: Let's Skate!; Playground Senses; Tick Tock; Charge It Up; Surprising Stones; Our Magnetic Planet; Recycling Research; and Happy Birthday, Grandma. Soft cover.

Grade 3. 2020. 60 pages. Lexile range: 500-790L. Motion and Magnets 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 Use Patterns to Predict Motion?

Topics include:

• Let's Skate!: The science of skateboarding (790L)
• Playground Senses: Repeating patterns of motion on a playground (560L)
• Tick Tock: The history of pendulum clocks (590L)
• Charge It Up: The history of static electricity (760L)
• Surprising Stones: The discovery of lodestone (710L)
• Our Magnetic Planet: How Earth acts like a magnet (720L)
• Recycling Research: Features of five recyclable materials (590L)
• Happy Birthday, Grandma: Engineering criteria and constraints for two solutions to a problem (500L)

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