How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

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

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

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.

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

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

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.

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

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

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

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

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

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

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

What is elasticity? Students will investigate how this concept applies to bouncing ball physics by testing the bounces of balls made out of different materials.