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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!

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

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.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

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.

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.

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

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

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

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