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.

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

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

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

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

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

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

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

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

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

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

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!

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.

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.

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