Featuring a true story of scientific exploration, this text is filled with facts and includes an element of drama that makes the story fascinating reading. In this work about Benjamin Franklin, a man... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This short and easy-to-read book (especially appropriate for 2nd thru 5th grade) provides a meaty and interesting story of Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity. Without getting too technical, the story explains things that Franklin discovered about which materials conduct electricity and which don't, the connections he made between static electricity and lightning and details of his famous experiment with a kite in a thunderstorm. Very interesting and nicely illustrated with full-color pictures throughout.
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