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Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

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.

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.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

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.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

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

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

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

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

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.