This experiment examines whether storing your orange juice at different temperatures affects its acidity.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

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

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

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

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.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.