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Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

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

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.