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What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

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.

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

This science project has students collect wood samples and invent new uses for different types of wood based on its properties.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

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

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.