Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
Question: Do some people really eat bugs? Answer: Yes, some people eat bugs as part of their diet. The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy. Insects are high in nutritional value, low in fat and inexpensive. Sounds like the perfect choice for a low-cal diet. Instead of spending money on sprays to kill roaches, [...]
What is in a seed? How does the seed turn into a plant? Are seeds dead? What makes seeds grow? These are but a few questions that kids as well as many adults wonder about. For answers, see BABY PLANTS. For more information about seeds and their parts, see Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of [...]
QUESTION: Why does my backbone bend? ANSWER: All the bones of your body make up the skeletal system. This system provides the framework that allows you to stand upright and also protects delicate internal body parts. An adult has about 206 bones. The number of bones varies from person to person because of the differences [...]
QUESTION: Can squirrels really fly? ANSWER: Squirrels do not fly, but there is a type of squirrel that has special flaps of skin that extend from their front legs to their hind legs. When these squirrels leap from one tree branch to another, their skin is stretched out like sails to help the squirrel glide [...]
Question: Why does my tongue hurt when I eat fresh pineapple? Answer: Fresh pineapple contains bromelain, which is mixture of two protein-digesting chemicals. Your tongue, and lips as well as the tissue inside your mouth is made of protein which the bromelain can and does digest. YIKES! Can you eat too much pineapple? Does the [...]
When your skin is touched, nerves at the surface of your skin send messages to your brain. In this articles, information is given about how the brain can be tricked into incorrectly processing nerve messages.
I love this bird’s hairdo. It reminds me of a time when I told the beautician that I wanted something wild and crazy and then sat back and dozed. When I opened my eyes my hair was about 3 inches long all over my head. I got what I asked for. It was wild and [...]
ABOUT ME: Hi, I am Janice VanCleave, author of 50 best-selling science experiment books for children ages 4 through high school. I taught science for 27 years.
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