Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
Brain Erasers at “www.For Teachers Only.com”– Shopping Tip: Think Outside the Box When perusing school supplies, don’t limit the usefulness of items to the tasks they were made to do. For example, while the brain erasers available on the “For Teachers Only” website, may or may not be quality erasers, I’d use them [...]
Tip: Look for Ideas you can adapt. Tip: When looking for new ideas, don’t negate websites for young learners even if you teach older kids. For example, in reviewing the ABCMouse website for young learners, puzzle pieces were used to represent Word Families, such as pig. When I click on the pig puzzle piece other [...]
Hi, I am Janice VanCleave. Welcome to my science website. My goal this year is to encourage educators to PLAY AND HAVE FUN TEACHING SCIENCE Ideas that I have for achieving this goal, include: 1. Developing a series of articles for educators called, “Saving Teachers Time and Money.” I’ve written and posted several articles. I [...]
Free Science and Math Activities Online Some online education supply companies, such as Discount School Supply, invite educators to share activity ideas. The beautiful colors in the photo shown are from a lesson created by Shannon Griffin. While Shannon uses her “Colored Soda Clay” activity with preschool children, the basic goals for the lesson [...]
Clues for Making Science Easy and Affordable. This is the first in what will be a series of articles providing resources and and tips to make science not only fun, but affordable. 1. Use What You Have The first rule for teachers is to NEVER! NEVER! throw away anything that you can store. 2. Online [...]
Can You Believe Everything You Find Online? The following heading for an article caught my attention. Why? Because Bill Gates is so famous. So, I read the article. After all, Bill Gates is very successful. He has made gazillions of dollars that started with a simple computer he and a friend built in his garage. [...]
How to turn a frown into a smile. A Frown is an Upside Down Smile. The diagram of the Smiley face represents how I felt when I started revising my website by deleted stuff that was not in use. After permanently deleting 1000 pieces of art that were listed as being unassigned, I was still [...]
What is a colorant? A colorant is something, especially a dye, pigment, ink, or paint, that colors something else. For the following activity, colorant choices include, tempra paint, food coloring, and water soluble acrylic paints. What happens when colorants are mixed together? Any two or more colorants can be mixed to form different colors. Only [...]
An Air Force Fly Over! Two U.S. Presidents Honoring and Respecting the U.S. Flag! What does this have to do with science? UMM! Sound Maybe? Colors Maybe? Or, just enjoy it. I did.
Boiling and Cleaning Instructions for preparing chicken bones for classroom studies. Chicken bone activities.
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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