Bug science : 20 projects and experiments about arthropods : insects, arachnids, algae, worms, and other small creatures / by Karen Romano Young ; illustrations by David Goldin.

Bug science : 20 projects and experiments about arthropods : insects, arachnids, algae, worms, and other small creatures / by Karen Romano Young ; illustrations by David Goldin.

By
Young, Karen Romano.

Publication Date
2009

Publication Information
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,

Edition
1st ed.

Physical Description
80 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Arthropoda -- Juvenile literature.
 
Science projects -- Juvenile literature.

Series
SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS
 
SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Which workshop? -- Finding bugs -- Keeping bugs -- Identifying bugs -- Workshop #1: Raise your own. . . grow flies! -- Workshop #2 : Swimming in it . . . observe microscopic bugs -- Workshop #3 : Ants come marching. . . try to make an ant get lost -- Workshop #4 : Honey, help me with this hayfever! . . . try to reduce hayfever by eating local honey -- Workshop #5 : Watching spiders. . . observe a spider in captivity -- Workshop #6 : The eye of the butterfly. . . figure out what color a butterfly favors -- Workshop #7 : X-ray vision . . . photograph the insides of insect head -- Workshop #8 : Catapult legs . . . demonstrate the properties of a flea's legs -- Workshop #9 : Arachnophobia! . . . design a questionnaire to study spider phobia -- Workshop #10: Roly-poly maze . . . teach pill bugs by using their instinct to stay out of the light -- Workshop #11: Composting: beyond worms! . . . get inside a compost heap -- Workshop #12: I've got worms . . . find the reproduction rate of compost worms -- Workshop #13: Food factory . . . learn about the business of growing food for insect-eating reptiles -- Workshop #14: Eating up the road . . . investigate ant tunnels -- Workshop #15 : Cricket-& moth-eaten socks . . . compare bug eating habits -- Workshop #16: Striding on water . . . analyze how water striders stay afloat -- Workshop #17: Sounds buggy . . . evaluate insect calls -- Workshop #18: Strong as silk . . . test the strength of fibers -- Workshop #19: How to fly . . . build an insect-sized airplane -- Workshop #20: A cricket's sense of smell . . . train an insect to recognize smells. Present it! Handing it in, showing it off, telling your story, getting the A.

Language
English

ISBN
9781426305207
 
9781426305191


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