Grade 4. 2025. 52 pages. Lexile range: 610-890L. Speed Bumps reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another? Topics include: Nature's Noisemakers; Record Breakers; The Need for Speed; Energy in the Air; Parts that Protect; Brain Games; and Let It Slide. Soft cover.

Grade 4. 2025. 52 pages. Lexile range: 610-890L. Speed Bumps 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 Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

Topics include:

• Nature's Noisemakers: How animals make sounds with their bodies (610L)
• Record Breakers: What it takes for athletes to win foot races in record time (840L)
• The Need for Speed: Body structures animals have that give them speed (790L)
• Energy in the Air: How motion energy causes air to heat up (810L)
• Parts that Protect: How the parts of the black walnut protect it (810L)
• Brain Games: How helmets prevent head injuries (740L)
• Let It Slide: Reducing friction to make objects slide (890L)

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