How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

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

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

What's the difference between centripetal and centrifugal force? Students find out by seeing both in action as they conduct this experiment.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Have you or your child ever heard that nursery rhyme and wondered just what curds and whey are anyway? Do this simple experiment together to find out!

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

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

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

The goal of this science fair project is to assess the acidity levels of common food and household products using pH test strips.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.