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Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

This science fair project on testing water hardness is a great introduction to practical chemistry. Test and learn the difference between hard and soft water.

Here's a preschool activity to help your child get a head start on his day: make car-shaped toast slathered with his favorite topping.

This experiment will determine how different kinds of light affects the strength of bakerâs yeast.

Turn your childâs love of markers into a really colorful creation with the help of some water and a big brush.

Study structure of the lens found in the human eye and determine whether it is concave or convex. Prepare a ray diagram, formulate hypothesis.

Send big holiday love on a small budget by sending these "Elf Tickets" this year...and give your child some writing practice in the bargain.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Make a list of items that need repurposing such as e-waste, batteries and mattresses. Invent your own original repurposed design.

Determine which metal has the highest rate of conductivity.

Here's how to make a princess dress out of a long skirt in a fabric she likes.

This project explores differences in people's reactions to images in color and images in black and white.

This science fair project explores different types of endangered frogs, and why some are endangered while others are not.

The objective of this science fair project is the compare the rate and efficiency of disaccharide and polysaccharide fermentation by yeast.

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

Invigorate your fourth grader's mind by helping him turn his room into a woven masterpiece using various lengths of material.

Stuck inside on a rainy day? Teach your child a classic kid's game: Five Stones. All you need are five stones and a flat surface.

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

Kids will make predictions about cricket behavior by conducting this fun and easy experiment which simulates different environments for crickets.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Here's an activity that uses second-semester high school algebra to determine which pizza gives you the most bang for your appetite. Here's how to get started:

In this cool elementary school science fair project idea make a model to learn what happens to the Earth's surface when ice moves over land.

Rid your family of that pile of old Christmas cards once and for all! Show your child how to create a nifty 8-sided ornament using his favorite holiday images.

Turn sweet treats into miniature masterpieces with this candy melting activity!

In this science fair project, learn how a mineral streak is made and how it can help identify an unknown mineral.

Design and build a scale model representing living tree architecture. Then build a full-size version using one or more lives trees, and test your creation.

This science fair project idea investigates how images are influenced by changes in light.