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Learn about the anatomy of the autonomic nervous system and its relationship to the rest of the body.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Compare different remedies for cooling the mouth after eating spicy food.

Explore the effect of wind speed on the burning rate of a candle.

Demonstrate Newton's laws of motion by examining the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration during free-fall.

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

This awesome diffraction grating experiment puts high school students' applied math skills to the test by having them calculate the wavelength of laser light.

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

This social science experiment endeavors to determine whether certain types of animals provide greater physical and mental health benefits to their owners.

This experiment evaluates how a diet that is rich in "mood-enhancing" foods affects the way people feel over several weeks.

This experiment will evaluate if the environments that people work in affect their speed and accuracy in performing mental tasks.

There is debate about whether chalkboards or whiteboards are better. This experiment explores which leads to better retention of visually-displayed information.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

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

This experiment uses personality assessments to evaluate if certain personality traits are more common in people with unusual first names.

This experiment evaluates if a noisy environment makes it harder for test subjects to perform tasks that require hand-eye coordination.

This experiment evaluates if the temperature of the environment that you work in affects your ability to perform mental tasks.

Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!

This experiment explores whether caffeine improves athletic performance.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

This project uses toy cars to determine how friction and gravity affect cars and braking.

We're all familiar with the idea that some songs âget stuck in your head.â This experiment explores the validity of that claim.

The objective of this experiment is to evaluate whether funny advertisements are more or less effective than serious advertisements.

This experiment will evaluate how texting and talking on cell phones influence reaction time.

This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Young physicists learn about apparent weightlessnessâthat weird sensation you sometimes feel in elevators, turbulent airplanes, and roller coasters.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.