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Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

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

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

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

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

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.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.