New in the Play and Find Out Series...Kids are full of challenging questions about the natural world-especially when it comes to animals. Bugs are one of the most varied and intriguing forms of life they encounter. This new volume in the popular Janice VanCleave's Play and Find Out series puts the answers to 50 questions kids commonly ask about bugs at parents' fingertips, in the form of easy and playful experiments that let children discover the answers on their own. Each experiment is introduced with a simple "Wonder" question, such as "I wonder how bugs can walk on water?" And there are "More Fun Things to Do" to further explore each topic. Easy-to-follow steps demonstrate simple experiments that kids will love. * Big, two-color illustrations show exactly how to do each activity. Janice VanCleave (Riesel, Texas) is a former elementary school and high school science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving science workshops. She is the author of more than three dozen children's science books with sales totaling more than one million copies.

 

This book is part of a book series called Janice Vancleaves Play And Find Out .

There are 122 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd .

JANICE VANCLEAVE , the author of the popular Science for Every Kid series, is a former science teacher and a popular presenter at museums, schools, and bookstores nationwide.

This book has the following chapters: COLLECTING. ; I. D. : I Wonder. Are All Little Crawling Critters Insects?; Trapper: I Wonder. How Can I Safely Catch an Insect?; Sweeper: I Wonder. How Can I Catch a Flying Insect?; Butterfly House: I Wonder. How Can I Keep Butterflies?; Bug House: I Wonder. How Can I Keep a Cricket?; Tunnels: I Wonder. What's Inside an Anthill?; CHANGING. ; Around and Around: I Wonder. Where Do Butterflies Come From?; Break Out: I Wonder. How Do Small Grasshoppers Grow Larger?; MOVING. ; Creepers: I Wonder. How Many Legs Do Caterpillars Have?; Lifters: I Wonder. How Does a Bug Walk?; Sticky Feet: I Wonder. How Do Bugs Walk on the Ceiling?; Water Walkers: I Wonder. How Do Bugs Walk on Water?; Speedy: I Wonder. Is There a Dragon That Can Fly?; Flutter: I Wonder. How Do Insects Fly?; Springy: I Wonder. How Can Fleas Jump So Far?; COMMUNICATING. ; Dancers: I Wonder. Do Bees Dance?; Flashers: I Wonder. Why Do Fireflies Light Up?; EATING. ; Munchers: I Wonder. Do Insects Have Teeth?; Sippers: I Wonder. How Do Butterflies Drink?; CAMOUFLAGING. ; Hide--and--Seek: I Wonder. Why Are Walkingsticks Hard to Find?; Top and Bottom: I Wonder. Why Is the Top of a Butterfly's Wings a Different Color Than the Bottom?; SPINNING. ; Over the Edge: I Wonder. Are Spiders Insects?; Spiderlings: I Wonder. Where Do Spiders Come From?; Catchers: I Wonder. Why Are Spiderwebs Sticky?; Stuck: I Wonder. Why Don't Spiders Get Caught in Their Own Webs?; Appendix. ; Glossary. ; Index.