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Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Has your kid noticed how much bigger the moon looks when it's low in the sky? Here's an activity you can do to show them that it's just an optical illusion.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

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

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.