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This science fair project idea investigates how a bottom keel helps keep a boat from rocking back and forth.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

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

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Learn how to make an anemometer with step-by-step instructions in this cool science fair project idea for 4th grade.

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

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

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.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

Kids learn how to prevent erosion by growing grass. They'll test soil with grass against raw soil in this revealing science fair project idea for 4th grade.

Have you ever noticed the ridges on a dog's nose? In this project, we take several dogs' nose prints and discover just how unique they are!

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

This science fair project idea explores if the length of the string that an object is suspended on has an effect on how fast or slow it swings.

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

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

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

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

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!

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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.

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

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

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!

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.