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Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Gather some friends for a bubbly soda taste test do determine calories' role in your favorite drinks.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Find out which kind of bubble wrap fares best when put in impact.

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Find out whether putting something on top of a plant will inhibit its growth.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Explore how sound waves are reflected and absorbed by producing echoes. Analyze which locations produce echoes.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

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.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Do you think you can blow down a sand castle with a mighty wind? Find out which material stands up best to erosion in this erosion experiment.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.