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Excite your fourth grader by recreating ancient Viking myths. This miniature longboat will explore the principle of water molecules expanding when heated.

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

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.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Find out the differences (if any) in the frequencies of voices produced from a computer, from a phone, and directly coming out of the voice box of a human.

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.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

This science fair project idea shows how a vibrating object transfers energy to whatever it touches.

This science fair project idea studies how talking on a cell phone affect driving?

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

This experiment will explore how mallets of various materials and weight create sonic tones of varying lengths.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

Learn how matter transmits sound with a simple, hands-on experiment using sand, water and air.

Take the plunge into handcrafting with this neat and tidy soap recipe. Here's how to create your own personalized soap.

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

In this fun science fair project idea learn about the multiple sources of radio waves and fin out how difficult it is to block them.

Demonstrate how we are able to locate sounds, echolocation. Have a blindfolded subject locate you by the sound of your clapping.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

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

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

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?

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.