Physical Science Activities : Page 9

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Illustrate the idea of light refraction with this exciting and mystifying experiment.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

This science project examines the history of earthquakes and what we can do to prevent future disasters.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

Before digital cameras, before Polaroids, there was the original pinhole camera. Build a pinhole camera and see what true vintage photography looks like!

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Bring back the groovy memories by making shrinky dinks using household materials, while learning about the science of plastics. Here's how to get started:

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.

This project determines what percentage of test subjects react adversely to the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and explores their physiological responses.

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

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

Celebrate April Fools' Day with a science prank that is sure to amuse...and educate too!

Design a hearing protection device to protect their ears from loud noises. Examine the properties of current protective hearing devices, materials.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Find out the differences (if any) in the frequencies of voices produced from a computer, from a phone, and directly coming out of the voice box of a human.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

In this fun science fair project idea learn the difference between additive and subtractive color and why they are handled differently.

Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.