Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Excite your fourth grader by recreating ancient Viking myths. This miniature longboat will explore the principle of water molecules expanding when heated.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

In this science fair project, students will create a model of a shoreline, observe erosion and examine how jetties prevent erosion.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Science fair project determines relationship between number and variety of insects and spiders by collecting and counting invertebrates in a ecosystem.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

How does distance affect the spreading of light? Kids see diffraction and the inverse square law of light in action with this great science fair project idea.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.