Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

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

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

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.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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 activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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 science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

In this science fair project, kids will be able to see where germs reside on their hands while gaining insight into the benefits of thorough hand washing.

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

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