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Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

This science fair project focuses on a polymer called hydrogel super absorbent crystal which absorbs water, swelling to many times its original size.

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

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

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.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This science fair project idea explores alcoholic fermentation at work by making your own soda.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.