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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.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

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!

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

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.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

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

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

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.

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

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

This experiment has students record rat behavior to learn about the benefits of rats and research rat myths throughout history.

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

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

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.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

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.

Science fair project that examines condensation and the conditions needed in order for dew to form.

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

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