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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.

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

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.

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

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

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.