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

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

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

This science fair project idea explores whether a sundial is as accurate as an atomic clock when telling time.

Check out this fun science fair project to make a vinegar and baking soda balloon and demonstrate how gas is created as a result of the chemical reaction.

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

This science fair project explains the process of how the lungs expand and contract with the help of the diaphragm.

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

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

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

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

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

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!