In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

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.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

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

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

Take a closer look at your furry friend (or the furry friend of a neighbor -- with permission) to discover if communication exists between cats and humans.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Kids will learn how to show the direction of magnetic field lines and create a permanent model using iron filings in this great science fair project idea.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.