Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Before digital cameras, before Polaroids, there was the original pinhole camera. Build a pinhole camera and see what true vintage photography looks like!

Looking for a way to help your teen explore the fun side of physics? How about a round of Saturday morning cartoons?

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

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.

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

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++.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!