What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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.

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

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

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

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

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.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

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

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.