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Power Up: Resource Guide (Energy, Electricity & Conservation)

Adler, David A. A picture book of Thomas Alva Edison
(1996) An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items.
Call number: 92 Ed48ad 1996
Bang, Molly. My light
(2004) The sun tells its story of how all energy on earth comes from its light. It is a motivating springboard into the study of photosynthesis, energy, and sunlight.
Call number: Picture Book Bang
Bartholomew, Alan. Electric mischief: battery-powered gadgets kids can build
(2002) Explains how to make a battery-powered illuminated fork, airplane bottle, electric dice, noisemaker, bumper car, back scratcher, and robot hand
Call number: 621.31042 B2832e 2002
Byers, Ann. Blackouts: a practical survival guide
(2006) From the series entitled "The library of emergency preparedness"
Call number: 613.69 B991b 2006
Cole, Joanna. El autobús mágico y la excursión al campo eléctrico
(1998) Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used.
Call number: Picture Book Magic Espanol
Cole, Joanna. The magic school bus and the electric field trip
(1997) Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used.
Call number: Picture Book Magic
Delano, Marfé Ferguson. Inventing the future: a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
(2002) Presents a biography of the tireless Thomas Edison, illustrated with many photos of his life and inventions
Call number: 92 Ed48d 2002
Dooling, Michael. Young Thomas Edison
(2005) A fascinating and compelling portrait of the man who has been called America's greatest inventor and entrepreneur.
Call number: 92 Ed48d 2005
Ford, Carin T. Benjamin Franklin: inventor and patriot
(2003) Profiles a man whose childhood love of reading and desire to know about everything led to a multifaceted career as an inventor, scientist, printer, and statesman.
Call number: 92 F8542f 2003
Ford, Carin T. Thomas Edison: Inventor
(2002) Profiles a man whose childhood interest in experimentation led him to create more than one thousand inventions, including the phonograph, moving pictures, and a storage battery.
Call number: 92 Ed48f 2002
Gaines, Ann. Thomas Edison
(2001) An introduction to the life of the man who developed the electric light bulb and many other inventions.
Call number: 92 Ed48g 2002
Goldsmith, Howard. Thomas Edison to the rescue!
(2003) Young Thomas Edison saves a child from being hit by a train and, as his reward, asks for training as a telegraph operator because that will help him prepare to become an inventor.
Call number: Reader Goldsmith
Gutman, Dan. The Edison mystery
(2001) Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his back yard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric light bulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
Call number: Fiction Gutman
Knapp, Brian. Electricity and magnetism
(2002) Part of the Visual Science Encyclopedia series.
Call number: 503 K7272e 2002
Lauw, Darlene & Lim Cheng Puay. Electricity
(2002) Presents activities that demonstrate how electricity works in our everyday lives. History boxes feature the scientists who made significant discoveries in the field of electricity
Call number: 537.078 L379e 2002
Mara, Wil. Thomas Alva Edison
(2004) An introduction to the life of Thomas Alva Edison, whose many inventions included the phonograph and the light bulb
Call number: 92 Ed48m 2004
Mason, Paul. Thomas A. Edison
(2002) Part of the "Scientists who made history" series.
Call number: 92 Ed48m 2002
Parker, Steve. Electricity
(1992) Discusses the properties of electricity and describes how it is made and used.
Call number: 537 P228e 1992
Pentland, Peter and Pennie Stoyles. Toy and Game Science
(2003) Describes different kinds of toys and the scientific principles that explain how they work.
Call number: 531 P388t 2003
Peters, Celeste A. Circuits, shocks, and lightning
(2000) Explains the different kinds of electricity and describes how we use electricity every day. Includes related projects and experiments. A series of kid-friendly books that explores the major principles of science in an accessible manner for middle-school children. Each book discusses the various science topics utilizing four principal strands - career, environment, technology, and society. The basic internet theme is carried out from the title by means of "links", "buttons", and "byte-size fact" boxes in the interior text pages. Informative and exciting photographs, diagrams, charts, and maps illustrate the books throughout.
Call number: 537 P44215c 2000
Pfister, Marcus. Milo and the magical stones
(1997) A mouse discovers an extraordinary stone that can bring delight or disaster to the world. Halfway through, the book splits into two sections, each offering a different ending.
Call number: Picture Book Pfister
Pfister, Marcus. Milo y las piedras mágicas
(1997) A mouse discovers an extraordinary stone that can bring delight or disaster to the world. Halfway through, the book splits into two sections, each offering a different ending.
Call number: Picture Book Pfister Espanol
Roberts, Russell. Philo T. Farnsworth: the life of television's forgotten inventor
(2004) A biography of the persistent inventor whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.
Call number: 92 F237r 2004
Schanzer, Rosalyn. How Ben Franklin stole the lightning
(2003) Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
Call number: 530.092 Sch165h 2003
Seuling, Barbara. Flick a switch : how electricity gets to your home
(2003) Describes how electricity was discovered, how early devices were invented to make use of it, and how it is generated in power plants and then distributed for many different uses.
Call number: 621.31 Se81f 2003
Seuss, Dr. El Lórax
(1993) A greedy individual thoughtlessly pollutes the air, land, and water of the Bar-ba-loots' paradise in order to build his giant industry.
Call number: Picture Book Seuss Espanol
Seuss, Dr. The Lorax
(1971) A greedy individual thoughtlessly pollutes the air, land, and water of the Bar-ba-loots' paradise in order to build his giant industry.
Call number: Picture Book Seuss
Sproule, Anna. Thomas A. Edison: the world's greatest inventor
(2000) Details the life and work of Thomas Edison, who developed the electric light bulb and patents for numerous other inventions and innovations.
Call number: 92 Ed48s 2000
Taylor, Barbara. How to save the planet
(2001) Discusses such environmental concerns as depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, air and water pollution, recycling, wildlife conservation, and more
Call number: 363.7 T2124h 2001

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