Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

This science fair project idea discovers whether there are some objects that do not fall at a constant rate.

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

In this project, waves of vibrations are experimented with using water in glasses.

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

Science fair project that determines whether tapping a pomegranate with a spoon helps it release its seeds.

This project investigates the affect of storage temperature on microwave popcorn.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Examine the effect of pressure on carbonation in soda.

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

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

The objective of this science fair project is to analyze the effects of salinity and temperature on water.

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the differences in heat absorption for darker colors vs. lighter colors.