You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

Kids learn about potential energy, and mechanical energy, and how to make power from water with one of our favorite renewable energy projects for kids.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Learn about the effect of artificial light on plant growth versus natural sunlight and delve into some biology and botany concepts in this science project.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

In this simple circular motion experiment, you'll observe tangential velocity and learn about how acceleration and centripetal force affect an object.

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Why do ants like sugar? Do ants like artificial sweeteners too? Kids find out with this great inquiry-based science fair project.

In this fun science project, learn about what happens to cut fruit and experiment with how to stop apples from turning brown.

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Set off an a science adventure as you prepare a row of bee homes for your new visitors.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

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

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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