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In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

What is biodiversity? Kids will study different areas of their backyards to see which is the most diverse to learn about biodiversity and random sampling.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

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

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Show your kids the power of baking powder by conducting a simple experiment. Make four batches of cornbread, all identical except for one thing: baking powder!

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

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.

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.

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!