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This awesome diffraction grating experiment puts high school students' applied math skills to the test by having them calculate the wavelength of laser light.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This experiment evaluates how a diet that is rich in "mood-enhancing" foods affects the way people feel over several weeks.

This experiment will evaluate if the environments that people work in affect their speed and accuracy in performing mental tasks.

There is debate about whether chalkboards or whiteboards are better. This experiment explores which leads to better retention of visually-displayed information.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This experiment uses personality assessments to evaluate if certain personality traits are more common in people with unusual first names.

This experiment evaluates if a noisy environment makes it harder for test subjects to perform tasks that require hand-eye coordination.

This experiment evaluates if the temperature of the environment that you work in affects your ability to perform mental tasks.

This experiment explores whether caffeine improves athletic performance.

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.

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

This project uses toy cars to determine how friction and gravity affect cars and braking.

We're all familiar with the idea that some songs âget stuck in your head.â This experiment explores the validity of that claim.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

The objective of this experiment is to evaluate whether funny advertisements are more or less effective than serious advertisements.

This experiment will evaluate how texting and talking on cell phones influence reaction time.

This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Demonstrate that insects observe colors and choose favorites. Place colored pieces of construction paper on a flat, glassy surface, observe bug preference.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Young physicists learn about apparent weightlessnessâthat weird sensation you sometimes feel in elevators, turbulent airplanes, and roller coasters.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

Discover the interactions of synthetic dyes and natural dyes on natural and artificially-made fabrics.

This science project challenges students to study the salt content in tap water and learn about electrochemistry.

Find out whether matching resonant frequencies can cause objects to shatter.

Find out which part of a flame burns wood the fastest and also if this is true for all types of flames such as candle-flame, burners, and lighters.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.