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

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

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.

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.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

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

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

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

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

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

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.

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