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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

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

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

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

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

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

In this investigation, an oil spill is simulated in a jar to observe the damage that oil spills have on the ocean and ocean life.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

Science fair project that examines the behavior of water and gravel in creek beds and the formation of sedimentary rocks.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.