How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

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

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

What is persistence of vision? With this hands-on science fair project idea, students will demonstrate this cool and dramatic phenomenon in their own classroom.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This science fair project investigates whether tapping the top or the side of the can will stop a vigorously-shaken can of soda from exploding.

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.