Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

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!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

Kids make a paperclip perform an act of magnetic levitation and test how effective various materials are at magnetic shielding in this science fair project.

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

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

This science research project challenges students to think of more effective lobster farming methods.

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.