Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

A fun, life science sxperiment idea idea involving strategies for keeping birds away from crops using a distress call. What kind of distress call works best?

Try this simple activity with your middle schooler to help him develop an understanding of why scientific classification systems exist and how they work.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Science fair project which determines whether it is numerically possible to be connected to every person on the earth within six degrees of separation.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

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

Science fair project that builds a magnetometer and demonstrate its uses.

Ant behavior is closely related to light intensity. This free science fair project idea examines how fast ants dig when they are exposed to to light and dark.

Describe the lives of commercially raised chickens. Contact local chicken farmers for information and advice. Write a detailed report about farming techniques.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Which public places harbor the most bacteria and germs? Test different environments to find out where the most bacteria live in this science project.

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Learn how to make a periscope with this cool engineering science fair project idea, and learn about optics to learn how a periscope works.

Investigate the different ways in which objects and organisms can be classified, create your own. then have volunteers classify using their own systems.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

Test the combustion of different types of woods.

Science fair project that examines how yeast grows, and which conditions allow for optimal growth. What types of nutrients does yeast prefer?

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Learn about how sugar fermentation and growing yeast in this easy science project! Yeast is a eukaryotic microbe that puts the fun in fungus!

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Instead of the traditional egg hunt, try this creative variation that will result in a beautiful Easter garden.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.