Physical Science Activities : Page 2

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

This awesome diffraction grating experiment puts high school students' applied math skills to the test by having them calculate the wavelength of laser light.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

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

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

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

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

The purpose of this science fair project is to build a basic radio.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.