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For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Explore how you can achieve magnetic levitation with the Meissner Effect! This cool science project explains formation and applications of a superconductor.

What is the coldest temperature possible? In this cool experiment, you'll calculate absolute zero by extrapolating data on the temperature and volume of gas.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Determine the relationship between the speed of a sound and the temperature of the air it passes through.

Determine whether a hot liquid cools off faster when liquid is added before or after a two minute wait.

Determine which metal has the highest rate of conductivity.

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

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Bake some cookies with an oven that collects sunlight and traps the shorter wavelengths (heat!).

Formulate a hypothesis and use the scientific method to determine the guess what is hidden in a box. Test abilities of volunteers, without opening box.

Explore joule heating and resistance vs. temperature with this cool electricity science fair project that gets kids melting ice cubes with resistors.

Determine whether magic salt is more effective at melting snow than regular salt. Pour one ounce of salt over the ice cubes, compare the melt downs.

This project examines the affect of temperature on viscosity and surface tension of different liquids.