Science Activities : Page 18

Discover whether the color of text correlates with ease and speed of reading.

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

For this activity your child will use the ready made glycerin base to create elegant rose petal hand soaps.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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!

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

This potato cannon activity teaches your middle schooler about the principle of Boyle's Law. Make a potato cannon and have a blast learning about science.

What if the shape of the Earth weren't spherical? How does its shape affect our gravity, climate, and tides? Model these questions in this cool project!

Kids conduct a cool balloon rocket experiment in this fun science fair project idea. Does a greater volume of air mean a greater distance traveled?

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

This project examines the phenomenon of using a mirror to trick a person's brain into experiencing sensations in body parts not actually affected.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Learn about the role of Earth's rotation on the Coriolis Effect and hurricanes in this science project. Model the Coriolis Effect on a hurricane's direction.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Science fair project idea helps conceptualize probability. Compare probabilities and outcomes of cards drawn from a standard playing deck.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

How fast is the wind blowing? This science experiment provides step-by-step instructions to help you answer this question.

Kids make strong bubbles to investigate the effect different additives have on bubble life in this cool science fair project idea.

Measure the effectiveness of detergent containing a UV-absorbing compound in blocking UV-A radiation. Use black light and UV detecting beads.

Test whether spot magnets can help improve the symptoms of an injury.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

Determine how effective animal camouflage is by simulating it in an indoor and outdoor setting.