Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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!

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

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

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

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

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

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.