Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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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