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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!

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.

Household items and a bit of imagination will create a CSI kit for your child to have investigative adventures with. Explore the world of forensic science!

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

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?

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

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

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

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