How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

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.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

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.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

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

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.