Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: Young, Karen Romano. Title: Bug science : 20 projects and experiments about arthropods : insects, arachnids, algae, worms, and other small creatures / by Karen Romano Young. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2009. Description: 80 p. Summary: Provides instructions for experiments about bugs, including flies, microscopic insects, ants, bees, and others; and offers tips on using the workshops as science fair projects. Series: Science fair winners Science fair winners. Subjects: Arthropoda -- Juvenile literature. Science projects -- Juvenile literature. Arthropods. Insects. Notes: 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 pillbugs by using their need 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: Space shuttle ants . . . investigate ant tunnels -- Workshop #15 : Who ate my 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 properties of silk -- 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. LCCN: 2009012734 ISBN: 9781426305207 (library binding : alk. paper) 1426305206 (library binding : alk. paper) 9781426305191 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1426305192 (pbk. : alk. paper) Other Number: 290468672 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 869249 Call Number: 595.7078 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 3 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1