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

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

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.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

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

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

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.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

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.

If your fourth grader is obsessed with all things glow-in-the-dark, then here's an activity that will really light up her imagination!

This science fair project on testing water hardness is a great introduction to practical chemistry. Test and learn the difference between hard and soft water.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

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.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

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

This science fair project focuses on the use of the enzyme amylase found in human saliva to break down starch into sugar.

This science experiment tests if dog saliva can really help heal wounds.

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.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!