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Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

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

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

In this windmill model science project, you will build a windmill to learn about wheel-and-axle machines and how these simple machines are used to do work.

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.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Check out this cool science project idea to learn about rocks and explore the cycles of formation, breakdown, and reformation of rocks in the Earth's crust.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Wind is an important source of renewable, green energy. The purpose of this science fair project is to build and operate a windmill generator.

This science fair project idea examines which type of insulation holds in the most heat.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

In this science fair project, learn how a mineral streak is made and how it can help identify an unknown mineral.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.