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This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

What's the best way to make DIY compost? Kids will learn about aerobic and anaerobic decomposition while learning to appreciate the value of composting.

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

We all know that the Moon has different phases, but it can be hard to figure out why. Try this activity to see how the Moon's phases really work.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

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!

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

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