Science Fair Winners: Bug Science: 20 Projects and Experiments about Anthropods: Insects, Arachnids, Algae, Worms, and Other Small Creatures

Young, Karen

ISBN 10: 1426305206 ISBN 13: 9781426305207

Publisher: National Geographic Kids, 2009

Synopsis

It might be creepy, but entomology is one cool branch of science for kids! Bug Science is a funny, educational book filled with cool workshops that are ideal for science fairs. Sometimes it’s all about the bugs, like an experiment to reroute ants. Sometimes it’s about how we interact with bugs, like the workshop on spider phobias. You can even turn your friends into bug bait to see who has the sweetest skin.

Bug Science is peppered with sidebars from entomologists and is sure to inspire a new appreciation for the buggy world we live in.

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About this title

About the Author:

Karen Romano Young is very much a renaissance woman with interests as broad as the seven seas and as deep as the deepest trench in the deepest ocean, with a particular interest in anything oceanic. She is an author of many celebrated books for young readers, both fiction and nonfiction, some of which she also illustrated. Her interest in science experiments are an outgrowth of many successive years of science fair projects with her children. Karen and her family live in Connecticut.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4–8—These books provide a variety of "workshops" that encourage readers to experiment, observe, and survey two popular topics. The projects clearly define the time required, type of science, concepts, and amount of adult involvement needed. A question to consider; a plan to follow, including detailed steps; a list of required materials; and basic science facts that guide the workshop are also included. The last chapters discuss a variety of ways to present the projects. Series such as Robert Gardner's "Ace Your Science Project" and "Score! Sports Science Projects" (both Enslow, 2009) include more background information on the topic, but these books give additional opportunities for extending the basic projects along with detailed suggestions for presenting them. The cartoon illustrations will appeal to middle-grade scientists. Welcome additions to science-fair collections.—Christine Markley, Washington Elementary School, Barto, PA
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About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1426305206
• ISBN 13: 9781426305207
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Goldin David