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

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

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

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

What heats up fasterâwater or soil? 5th grade students test the specific heat of water against the specific heat of sand in this great science fair project.

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate different ways to generate static electricity and record its effects.

Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

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

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

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

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

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

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

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

Science fair project determines relationship between number and variety of insects and spiders by collecting and counting invertebrates in a ecosystem.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.