Science Activities : Page 15

Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.

Does electricity move better through thick wires or thin ones? kids will conduct this classic electricity experiment for this science fair project.

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 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.

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.

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.

Measure the porosity of rocks by submerging them in water. Measure how much water each rock "drank," by measuring the difference in water volume.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

Kids will learn about the interaction of lactose and lactase in milk and discover why we describe enzymes as catalysts in this fun science fair project.

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

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

This science fair project focuses on the use of a conductivity device that will determine if a substance dissolved in water can or cannot conduct electricity.

This cool air pressure demonstration has kids break a ruler using only a newspaper and atmospheric pressure.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

This experiment will examine and precisely measure the amount of sugar in various sodas.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

In this cool experiment, learn about the forces of resistance in a liquid and race marbles in a cylinder to find out which fluids have a high viscosity.

In this project students learn about the golden ratio and investigate if it can be used to predict people's assessment of beauty in others.

This project involves the programming and development of a 3D Rubik's Cube application using C++.

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

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

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

The objective of this experiment is to conduct a ganzfeld experiment and determine if extrasensory perception (ESP) can be observed.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate magnetic forces of attraction and repulsion using a magnet and everyday objects.

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