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Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

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

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

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.

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.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

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.

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

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.