Books in First Step Nonfiction _ Changing Matter series

Presents simple experiments that demonstrate what happens to various materials when they are cooled.

This is one in a series of simple books for beginning readers which introduces students to basic scientific concepts of changing matter, using a variety of everyday examples. Short sentences and colourful images make the concepts explained easy to understand.

What Is a Gas? offers emergent readers a simple explanation of matter, a discription of gases, and examples of how gases can change into different states of matter.

What Is a Solid? offers emergent readers a simple explanation of matter, a description of solids, and examples of how solids can change into different states of matter.

Putting kernels in a pot, heating them, and adding salt are all part of making popcorn. Simple text explains how kernels change form when you heat them in a pan.

This science series explains how some forms of matter respond to various forces. Simple text and vivid color photographs encourage students to observe, describe, record, and predict the many types of changes in matter.

Simple text and photographs introduce pigs and their body parts.

Presents simple experiments that demonstrate what happens to various materials when they are cut.

This series teaches students about the various ways in which objects can be described and compared. Color photos accompany the simple sentences on each page.

What Is a Liquid? offers emergent readers a simple explanation of matter, a description of liquids, and examples of how liquids can change into different states of matter.

This is one in a series of simple books for beginning readers which introduces students to basic scientific concepts of changing matter, using a variety of everyday examples. Short sentences and colourful images make the concepts explained easy to understand.

Summarizes how water changes from a solid to a liquid and back again, and introduces related facts such as that water freezes at thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit and that ice floats.