By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Use pepper and soap to discover some fun facts about the properties of water.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

In this fun science experiment, kids will determine the best method for ripening avocados and discover the cool chemical reaction that makes this possible.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.