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Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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

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

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Science fair project which uses coins flips to visually demonstrate the probability of an event and how to express it.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Learn about savanna flora and fauna in this science project! Take a look at characteristics of tropical grassland plants and animals that help them survive.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Science fair project which measures whether tsunamis are more destructive when they are caused by an earthquake or by a meteor.

Find out whether soil amendments can improve soil conditions and help you grow a bigger beanstalk in this ecology experiment!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Examine whether distilled water, spring water, or regular tap water yield faster plant growth.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!