Study Island A Study Program Worth Paying For

Study Island is designed for each so. The concepts for each subject meet individual state assessments.

What is Study Island? Study Island is a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use, web-based standards mastery products. This is a great program. No matter what state you teach in, there is a program that focuses on your state standards. I found myself answering questions so that I could get back to the game it let [...]

BrainPop Camouflage

An animal's camoflauge characteristics include its body's color, pattern design, and shape The structure, color, and pattern of

  What is Camouflage? How is it Helpful? Camouflage is how animals blend in with their environment. Why does an Arctic fox grow brown fur in the spring and white fur in the winter? Animals use camouflage to blend in with their environment. Living things can use camouflage to help them hide from predators or [...]

Teaching Tips: Burglar Alarm

How to Challenge Kids With Varying Abilities Notice in the following video that the teachers has kids grouped by abilities. This is not evident until the end of the video when she explains that some groups are expected to build more complicated burglar alarms. During the initial introduction to circuits, groups could be random with [...]

Wood Absorbs Water

This book makes Bible stories come to life with each activities and crafts.

What Happens when Wood Absorbs Water? Think About It! When it rains for several days, some of the wooden doors inside my house are hard to open. Why? The doors did not get rained on. Clue: Humidity. In the video, toothpicks are broken and arranged so that when the broken parts get wet, the toothpicks [...]

SEO Success for Small Business

SEO Success for Small Businesses gives you ideas and information you need to make your website more visible on the web.

HOW VISIBLE IS YOUR WEBSITE? CLICK THIS B&N LOGO TO BUY SEO SUCCESS FOR SMALL BUSINESS       Search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search your website looking for stuff much like kids search the kitchen looking for goodies to eat. Chris Young’s book clues you in on the “goodies” that search [...]

Homeschool Science

Raising Caterpillars

HomeSchool Educators! Interested in Playing and Finding Out About Science With Janice VanCleave? To:  HomeSchool Educators It’s no secret that homeschool educators find science  difficult to teach. Often science experiments consists of kids performing fun-entertaining experiments without any introduction to the science processes. This is not science! This is more like science play, which is [...]

Science Games and Crafts

Foam 3-D Sickers

Hi, I am Janice VanCleave, and I write science experiment books for kids and educators. I am developing a Free! Science Website for kids and educators. After seeing the lesson plans on “Search PlanIt,” I want to add science lessons for different grade levels. OH! I forgot to say that I want science lessons that [...]

Substractive Colors

Diagram of Subtractive Colors

Subtractive Colors are produced by colorants (something that gives a material a color, such as paints, dyes, inks, and pigments). FYI: Additive Colors are produced by colored lights. Technically, color IS NOT a physical property of colorants or light. Instead, color is how the light receptors in your eyes, called cones, responds to light energy. [...]

Science Book for Young Learners

  20% Discount Code AFF20     Janice VanCleave’s Big Book of Play and Find Out Science Projects    Janice VanCleave’s Play and Find Out about Math: Easy Activities for Young Children    Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science to Young Learners: Grades Pre-K through 2 

Science For Every Kid Series (ages 8-12)

20% Discount Code AFF20   These books help kids get a handle on specific science subjects, and provide plenty of hand-on experiments to make learning fun. ASTRONOMY BOOKS Astronomy is the study of the universe, including stars, solar systems, planets, moons, and asteroids. BIOLOGY BOOKS Biology is the study of organisms, which are living things. [...]