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When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

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

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

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

A great science fair project on solar oven design that helps kids learn about solar power and solar heating.

Use an Elihu Thomson apparatus, also known as a ring launcher, to learn about electromagnetism concepts and the properties of various metals.

This science fair project investigates how temperature of a room affects the burn rate of a candle.

This science fair project idea measures physical dexterity as a function of temperature.

Check out this fun science fair project idea to learn how alkaline batteries convert chemical energy to electrical energy?

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

The objective of this science experiment is to evaluate the affects of high and low heat capacity on a material's heat retention ability.