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

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Young scientists will investigate people's preferences for saltiness, and make some inferences about genetics and diet.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

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

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

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

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

Check out this cool science fair project idea that models the behavior of the cold desert plants: xerophytes and halophytes.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

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

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.