Consult mechanics, automotive specialists for advice. Build a real engine or a scale model. Test and demonstrate its mechanical properties.

Learn how to convert gravitational potential energy into mechanical energy in this fun science fair project idea.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

Call in your crafty kids to help make this homemade air freshener, perfect for stowing in the backseat to keep your ride smelling fresh and clean.

Probability problems are often among the hardest math concepts to wrap your head around. Here's a classic example: the Monty Hall problem!

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Learn about the field of psychophysics and to learn about "Just Noticeable Differences."

In this activity, young learners will make a balance using a plastic hanger and weigh a variety of small objects using candy corn.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Determines the extent that high school GPA predicts future income. Survey volunteers, divide GPA into 5 categories, compare income levels with GPA

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!

In this wind tunnel experiment, you'll make a wind tunnel to test lift and airflow on a model plane and explore aerodynamics and the Bernoulli Principle.

Examine how the tire treads of a bicycle affect its rolling frictional force. Change tires, test speed performance on different terrains.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

This science fair project idea determines if material and tensile strength of different types of skateboard wheels affects the velocity of the skateboarder.

This unique twist on bingo is a great outside game that gives kids spelling and color practice, and it's lots of fun, too!

Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to construct a parachute that will deliver an egg safely to the ground. Good luck!