This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

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

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Examine which metal conducts more heat by boiling water in 3 pans made of aluminum, copper, and stainless steel.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Construct and experiment with a periscope using reflected light rays to gather an image.

What's the chemistry behind dyeing Easter eggs? Will adding vinegar to dye help the eggshell absorb the color? This colorful science project has the answers!

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

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

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

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

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

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!