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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!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

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 second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

This experiment has students record rat behavior to learn about the benefits of rats and research rat myths throughout history.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

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

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Science fair project that examines condensation and the conditions needed in order for dew to form.

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.