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In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

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.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

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

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

This science research project challenges students to think of more effective lobster farming methods.

This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.

This science project challenges students to learn about and classify weeds and discover new practical uses for weeds.

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.

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

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.