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Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

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

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

How do the phases of the Moon and gravity cause spring tides and neap tides? Does the Sun play a role in the tides? Figure it out in this fun science project!

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.

Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

This science fair project idea investigates whether plants can survive being frozen.

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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