Janice VanCleave's First-Place Science Fair Projects

Students, parents, and teachers will enjoy the earth science concepts, ideas, theories, and activities provided in this guide to science experiments. Budding scientists and earth science enthusiasts alike will find a science fair worthy project in this exciting volume. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs, readers are just a few steps away from science fair success.

Energy is all around us. However, we often fail to take notice of it. Readers will become more conscious of the energy at use by conducting a number of experiments with energy such as illustrating the conservation of mass, the refraction of light, and kinetic and potential energy. By performing these science-fair experiments, readers will gain an appreciation of how energy works in their daily lives.

Students, parents, and teachers will enjoy the science concepts, ideas, theories, and activities provided in this guide to science experiments. Budding chemists and chemistry enthusiasts alike will find a science fair worthy project in this exciting volume. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs, readers are just a few steps away from science fair success.

Students, parents, and teachers will enjoy the biology concepts, ideas, theories, and activities provided in this guide to science experiments. Budding biologists and biology enthusiasts alike will find a science fair worthy project in this exciting volume. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs, readers are just a few steps away from science fair success.

Readers are offered step-by-step experiments in ecology that are sure to place high in any science fair. More important, however, the experiments provided show young people the richness of the ecology surrounding them every day, including the habitats of flora and the ecosystem of a pond. After performing these fun, hands-on activities and learning how these systems in nature work and depend on one other, readers will better appreciate the natural world around them.

Astronomy enthusiasts, science gurus, and all curious minds, are provided nearly two dozen experiments that will certainly garner multiple science-fair awards. Each experiment exhibits clear, safe instructions with descriptive text and detailed photography. They will see why light bends in a medium, how to determine the size of the sun, and how gravity works, as they practice the experiments. As hands-on learning tools, experiments are not only educational, they're fun, too.