Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

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.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

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

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

This science fair project idea examines whether the colors of the spectrum respond differently in the thermal aspect when radiated by the sun.

In this science fair project, learn how a mineral streak is made and how it can help identify an unknown mineral.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

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.

This science fair project idea highlights decomposition rates by comparing how long it takes an item to decompose in a compost pile vs. a landfill.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

This science fair project idea determines if the size of the parachute will change the rate at which an object falls.

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!