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Wacky Windmill Challenge

Windmills have been around for generations to grind food and create energy. During this challenge, students will use various materials and put their engineering skills to work by creating their own windmills.

Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking

Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.

Structure Building Challenge

Get your students to be builders and create structures with a variety of materials. Students will have the opportunity to be creative, cooperate in groups, and discuss their experience.

My Robot Friend

What is a robot? What can robots do? Computer programmers tell robots what to do by creating a sequence of commands. In this lesson, students work in pairs to program a robot to act out the story from the mini story book *My Friend.*

Pipe Construction

Help your students develop their motor skills and learn about structures with this lesson that has them build structures out of pipes and connectors. This activity will also encourage team work and let students use their imagination.

Hero's Engine: Example of Newton's Third Law

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Buoyant Force of Water

The buoyant force of water explains why some objects float in water. But why do some objects sink? Find out in this physics experiment and learn about density.

Cell Phone Dead Zones: How Do Dead Zones Occur and What Can We do About Them?

This science fair project idea examines various dead zones and investigates the cause and how it can be fixed.

This science fair project idea designs safe bicycle routes using GPS.

Shedding Light on Energy Efficient Bulbs

This science fair project idea examines the actual cost of three household light bulbs by testing energy consumption.

Wind Tunnel Experiment

In this wind tunnel experiment, you'll make a wind tunnel to test lift and airflow on a model plane and explore aerodynamics and the Bernoulli Principle.

How to Make a Periscope

Learn how to make a periscope with this cool engineering science fair project idea, and learn about optics to learn how a periscope works.

Rubber Band Heat Engine

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

How to Make a Steam Powered Rocket Boat

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Renewable Energy Project for Kids: Power from Water

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.

Solar Hot Dog Cooker

Kids use applied math to build and test a parabolic mirror solar hot dog cooker in this cool engineering science fair project idea for middle school.

Air Power for Transportation

Can the force of air be used to propel a vehicle? This science experiment provides step-by-step instructions to help you answer this question.

How to Reduce Friction

In this fun science experiment, make a balloon car and test it on different surfaces to learn about sliding friction and rolling friction.

How to Make a Rubber Band Car

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

What Is a Compound Microscope?

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

Drum Size and Pitch

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Windmill Model Science Project

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.

Third-Class Levers in the Human Body

Did you know your body is full of simple machines? This project looks at one of the third-class levers in the human body: your arm!

The Single Fixed Pulley System

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

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