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What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.