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Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Check out this cool science project idea to explore how temperature creates annual rhythms that govern plant growth.

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Administer IQ tests to volunteers. have one group practice typical IQ test problems. Then compare results of the two groups.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

Here's a painting activity that's a lesson in secondary colors. Your child will mix and match paints to discover all the different hues one color can have!

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Determine how different measurements of the same object might yield different values. Provide as many reasons that you can think of.

Investigate the kinds of memories we tend to store and the emotions we store with them. Determine if memories have a strong emotional component.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

Here is a cool and easy science project to determine the rate of chlorophyll breaks down and how it affects the color change of grass from green to yellow.

Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

This conservation of energy demonstration shows why the first hill is the highest on a roller coaster. Learn more about potential and kinetic energy!

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

The objective of this science experiment is to evaluate the affects of high and low heat capacity on a material's heat retention ability.

Determine how proficient you are at making estimations and learn how to make more reasonable estimates.

This cool physics demo illustrates the simple harmonic motion of a pendulum while teaching kids the important concepts of potential and kinetic energy.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Check out this cool science project idea to learn about rocks and explore the cycles of formation, breakdown, and reformation of rocks in the Earth's crust.

This science fair project idea explores the different properties & interactions of sugar molecules.

Students will investigate the illumination durations and intensities of different luminous substances of different colors of the spectrum.

Do people only "hear" what they want to hear? Explore pareidolia and psychoacoustics with this easy science fair project that pits melody against white noise.