VanCleave's Science Fun

Your Guide to Science Projects, Fun Experiments, and Science Research

Pigment in Fall Leaves

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This kit contains chemical coated labels that change color with temperature fluxuations. In designing the labels, I created color combinations that modeled color changes in fall leaves. For example, some green leaves turn yellow in the fall. Leaves are green due to the presence of the green pigment called chlorophyll. The yellow color in leaves […]

Butterfly and Moth Facts

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Facts about Butterflies and Moths This list is far from being comprehensive. If you have suggestions, please let me know. Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow. The study of butterflies and moths is known as lepidoptery, and biologists that specialize in either are called lepidopterists. Watching butterflies and moths is known as butterflying and […]

Phenotype vs. Genotype

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Phenotype is the outward physical manifestation of an organisms (living things) determined by the genotype, which is the  internally coded, inheritable, information called DNA. The dog has long pink hair. Having long hair is a phenotype, but the pink coloring is a dye. The dog’s natural hair color is white. All phenotypes are inherited and […]

Sundew: Carnivorous Plants

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A Great Science Project would be to compare the growth of different types of carnivorousplants. The Link, All About Sundew Plants, not only provides information about sundews,but provides information about growing these plants, even from seed.

Amy Brown’s Biology Lessons

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FREE! High School Biology Lessons. While the lessons are directed for High School age, they might have information that you can use for your multi-aged groups or those kids that always want to be challenged. If you are not familiar with Amy’s quality work, check out her free lessons. She has a list of these […]

Cowboy Poetry by Ol’ Jim Cathey

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BUFFALO GAL  To Janice VanCleave: Author of fun science books for kids… You are a lady who never saw a problem you would not  tackle! Right in that field, she fixed her place. …Please tell me it ain’t so! ‘Cuz there she was near face to face with a shaggy buffalo. There she sat quite […]

Insects: Water Striders

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What Characteristics Identify Water Striders as Insects? Insects have many different shapes, sizes, and weights. Some, like the water strider in the video, can stand and move across the water from 3 to nearly 5 feet per second. The video is in slow motion. Like all insects, water striders have three pairs of legs and […]