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This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Check out this fun high school science fair project idea to identify features of a mushroom and learn how do humans use fungi to their benefit?

This science fair project idea focuses on the production of oxygen by plants during the photosynthesis process.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

Choose a timeline to live without technology. Keep a journal of all the issues encountered. What are the benefits and cons of modern technology?

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

Take the plunge into handcrafting with this neat and tidy soap recipe. Here's how to create your own personalized soap.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

Science fair project that demonstrates the effect of detergent pollution on fresh water birds' ability to stay afloat.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

Test of the effect of exercise on rote memory. Prepare a single list of 40 randomly chosen words. Have volunteers recall as many words as possible.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

This science fair project researches the most effective method to cut an onion and stay tear-free.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!