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There are a number of great resources that provide digital books that can be a
great resource for teachers for reading in the content area.
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Subject Area - Science
eBooks for Reading in the Content Area of
Science
The following are a sample collection
of possible eBooks that could be used in science classes. eBooks are texts that
have been converted and "published" in a digital format that displays on
specialized reading devices or computers.
MS Reader
http://www.microsoft.com/reader
Subject Area Books
Science
History
of Science, V1 Henry Smith Williams
Faraday
As A Discoverer, John Tyndall
First
and Last Things, H. G. Wells
Physics
Five
of Maxwell's Papers, James Clerk Maxwell
The
Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla
The
Story Of Electricity John Munro
Chemistry
American
Handbook of the Daguerreotype, Samuel D. Humphrey
The
Chemical History of A Candle, Michael Faraday
Periodic
Table Of The Elements
Periodic
Table of Comic Books (Use of Elements):
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
Biology
Bird
Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan
The
Naturalist on the River Amazons, Henry Walter Bates
The Life
of the Caterpillar, by J. Henri Fabre:
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jhf/cater.html
The
Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Charles Darwin
The
Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin'
Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised
by Genetic Research written by Catherine Baker:
http://intersect.uoregon.edu/genes/default.html
Earth Science
The
Student's Elements of Geology, Sir Charles Lyell
Let's
Collect Rocks & Shells, Shell Oil Company
VOLCANOES,
Robert I. Tilling
The
Yosemite, John Muir
Astronomy
Satellite Story,
Jocelyn Bergen:
http://www.archive.org/details/SatelliteStory
Children's
Echo the Bat:
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/echohome.html
Science Fiction
AntiGrav Unlimited, Duncan Long:
http://www.baen.com/library/dlong.htm
Teaching
Science for All Americans:
http://www.project2061.org/tools/sfaaol/sfaatoc.htm
Inquiry and the National Science Standards:
http://books.nap.edu/html/inquiry_addendum/index.html
Libraries
Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/
Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org
Baen Science Fiction:
http://www.baen.com/library/
USGS printing office
http://pubs.usgs.gov/products/books/gip.html
National Academy Press:
http://www.nap.edu/
International Children's Digital Library:
http://www.icdlbooks.org:8080/servlet/SearchCategory?id=128