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New inventions and ideas work their way into our lifestyles every day. This issue focuses on electricity and its two most famous scientists, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Their pioneering efforts led the way to the fuel efficient electric cars of today. How these cars work, how far they can travel, and how we’ll recharge them on the road is a fascinating journey that will “spark” young imaginations. Students will learn why it’s important to become less dependent on pollution-producing gas and oil and greener in our thinking.
In this issue students will:
- learn how electric cars work, how far they travel, and how to recharge
- read about the life of Nikola Tesla, inventor
- use the newspaper to locate onomatopoetic words and things that move
- discover young journalists who write for a major metropolitan newspaper
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