Hi, I am Janice VanCleave. My goal is to create homeschool material on my website to provide ideas that will work for you. Many homeschoolers ask for ideas to expand experiments. In response to this, I have designed teaching tips that can be adapted to even the simplest experiment. But, these are just my ideas […]
How Do Flies Eat?
Flies have a special mouth part called a proboscis. Much like the way the boy in the photo is using a straw, a fly uses its proboscis to drink liquids. Since flies do not have teeth, can they eat solid foods? Yes, and it really is gross, so get prepared: Flies vomit their stomach contents […]
Butterfly: Open Wings
Butterflies are cold blooded. This means they must warm themselves in sunlight. When a butterfly is chilled, it opens its wings as shown in the photo. This allows sunlight to warm each part of their wings.