Janice VanCleave's play and find out about nature Book

First of all, let's be clear that these are definitely NOT experiments. The book is all models and demonstrations.

One of the first "experiments" is in answer to the question, "Do plants have skeletons?"

If my son asked this, I'd take him outside and cut open a dandelion, and ask it right back.

But, if he then asked, "So if not, how do they stand up?" I might turn to this book's suggested project-- making a ziploc baggie model of a cell and putting it inside a shoebox. I might.

I like this book best as a list of leading science questions. My other children have been pretty curious about how things work, but my youngest does not ponder the material world as much as the human one. Instead I'll have to ask him, "Do plants have skeletons?" and all the other questions in this book.

And I won't feel too concerned about sending it back to the library while we figure out the answers ourselves.