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Examine the effect of pressure on carbonation in soda.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

The purpose of this study is to determine if people can tell the difference between organic and conventional food from looking at, smelling and tasting it.

This project examines what types of objects burn and which burn faster and cleaner.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This experiment examines whether storing your orange juice at different temperatures affects its acidity.

Would your dog prefer homemade or store-bought food? Raw or cooked? Test your dog's preferred diet in this fun experiment.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Demonstrate how to tell the age of an egg without having to crack it open.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.