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How to Make a Bouncy Ball

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Keep a Candle Burning Underwater!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

How to Make Lightning

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

Bake a Chemistry Cake

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

Construct batteries that make electricity from fruits with this fun science fair project.

Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Egg in a Bottle

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Heat Capacity of Water vs. Heat Capacity of Oil

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

Molecule Madness: A Water Experiment

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock. Show your sixth grader how!

Layering Liquids: Explore Density Science

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

This science fair project idea determines the operating differences of AAA, AA, C, D batteries all with a 1.5 volt rating.

How to Make the Perfect Shot in Basketball

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Plane Mirror Reflection 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!

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

Chemistry of Fireworks

Don't let school year learning slip away this summer: use this chemistry worksheet to practice identifying elements.

Light Absorption and Color Filters

Learn about where colors come from and how light absorption works in this fun experiment! All you need is a flashlight, construction paper, and cellophane!

Homemade Vacuum Chamber

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

Preserving Foods

This science fair project idea determines the most effective method of preserving food.

Series and Parallel Circuits

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

Do Plants Grow Better in Sunlight or Artificial Light?

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Make Your Own Electricity

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

How to Make Gears

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

Balloon Rocket Experiment

Kids conduct a cool balloon rocket experiment in this fun science fair project idea. Does a greater volume of air mean a greater distance traveled?

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