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ELECTRICITYELECTRICITYRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • What Is Electricity
  • Static and Dynamic Electricity
  • The History of Electricity and Magnetism
  • Electricity From the Power Plant to You
  • Uses of Electrical Energy
  • Electrical Energy and the Human Body
  • Renewable Power Sources
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"Flip on a light switch. Now flip it off. That simple action -- On/Off -- helps show electricity's power. Turn on a computer or a TV or a hair dryer. They show electricity's power, too. Most of the time, though, electricity can't be seen. In fact, you can't smell it, feel it, or hear it. But, it's hard at work. Some scientists feel that the word electricity is misused. To them . . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
MATTERMATTER
"The air you're breathing. The magazine you’re reading. The orange juice you may have had for breakfast. You. All these things have something in common. They are all examples of matter. Most of the matter you see every day comes in one of three forms. It may be a solid, like grains of sand. It may be a liquid, like the water in the ocean. It may be a gas, like the air that’s helping a kite stay aloft."
LIGHT LIGHT
"Take a look at your thumbnail. Now picture a spot the same size on the sun. This tiny spot would be as bright as one million candles shining all at once! The sun is our brightest and most important source of light. At any given moment, it sends out 383 billion billion megawatts of light energy. (That's 383,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 watts!) Compare this to a light bulb in your home. It proba. . . "
ENERGYENERGY
"Brrrrrraaaaa! The alarm clock sounds. Do you leap out of bed already in high gear? Or do you bury your head under the pillow and go back to sleep? No matter what you do, you're using energy. Scientists define energy as the ability to get work done. The work can be anything from breathing to giving a party to building a pyramid-to taking a nap. But where is energy? Can you touch it? No, but you can. . . "
ATOMSATOMS
"'Atom.' The word comes from the Greek a-tamos, meaning 'indivisible.' At the time these particles were named, scientists thought that atoms were the smallest bits of stuff existing in nature. We now know differencly, but the name stuck. About one hundred different kinds of atoms exist. Most are found in nature. Scientists makes others in a laboratory."
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Shockers of the Sea and Other Electric Animals. Caroline Arnold, Charlesbridge, 1999.
  • The New Way Things Work. David Maccauley, Houghton Mifflin Turning Point Inventions: The Lightbulb. Joseph Wallace, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999.
  • Eyewitness: Electricity. Steve Parker, Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World.  Jill Jonnes, Random House, 2003.
  • Electricity: A Self-Teaching Guide.  Ralph Morrison, John Wiley & Sons, 2003
  • Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray.  Linda Simon, Harcount, 2004.
  • The New Everyday Science Explained.  Curt Suplee, National Geographic Society. 2003.
WEBSITES
  • How Stuff Works: How Electricity Works
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/electricity.htm
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • Museum of Science, Boston - Theater of Electricity
    http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/