Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

How does water pressure change with depth? Kids learn how pressure works underwater with this cool and easy demo.

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

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

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

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

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

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.

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

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

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

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

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

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.