Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
Fly Straws Flies don’t chew their food like we do. Instead they drink their food through a straw-like mouth part called a proboscis. We don’t have to drink our food, but sometimes it is fun, especially if you have fun straws. Drinking liquids through a straw is easy, but if the food is very thick [...]
Teaching Young Children About Spiders
Facts and Fun investigation ideas.
I learn something new every day. That’s what makes reading stuff so interesting. My new discovery is deciduous teeth. I have used the term”deciduous” in respect to plants but don’t remember seeing it used to describe “baby teeth.” But, baby teeth to fall out after a time. Other names for baby teeth include, milk teeth, [...]
Classification Classification is nothing more than grouping things. The diagram shows a group of COINS. In the group are different kinds of coins and each coin type is identified by a letter. d = dime n = nickel p = penny q = quarter Activity: Make Coin ID Cards 1. Use a picture of a [...]
You can use a butterfly wing craft to teach camouflage. First prepare a butterfly wing for each child. This can be done by folding one-fourth of a sheet of green construction paper in half. Draw the wing pattern shown, and then cut it out. Cut a large leaf from the remaining section of the green [...]
Tyler and Krista, four year-old twins, often visit their local grocery store with their mother. They know just where to go to find their favorite cereal. Why? Because the food is organized in the store. Cereals are together on one aisle. But there is even more organization that that. Notice that Krista chose a cereal [...]
A Fun Classification Activity for Young Learners What Does Classification Mean? Classification is another name for organizing things. The children shown are helping me test one of my activities about classification. I wanted to know if very young kids could do a simple classification activity. The kids were instructed to find as many crayons as [...]
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