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Observe corn seed germination to learn about dicots and monocots and how plants grow from seeds to seedlings to full-grown plants!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

The buoyant force of water explains why some objects float in water. But why do some objects sink? Find out in this physics experiment and learn about density.

Bake some cookies with an oven that collects sunlight and traps the shorter wavelengths (heat!).

Determine if certain colors of light are more effective for photosynthesis. Plant seeds in cardboard boxes with different light, record visible growth.

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Investigate the kinds of memories we tend to store and the emotions we store with them. Determine if memories have a strong emotional component.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

In this physics project, you'll learn how to find the maximum height of a projectile using some math and trigonometry.

Here's a guide to starting a community clean-up project from scratch.

What does a raindrop look like when it splashes on the ground? Is each raindrop unique like snowflakes? Find out how raindrop size varies in this experiment.

This project researches whether the type of land use affects the water quality of Queenstown Creek.

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

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

High school kids learn about fruit fly ethology in this cool lab that determines fruit fly movement and behavior under different conditions. Check it out.

Did you know your body is full of simple machines? This project looks at one of the third-class levers in the human body: your arm!