2nd - 4th Grade Physical Science Resources : Page 4

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

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?

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

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

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Stir up some enthusiasm for experimentation with this candy-cracking science experiment!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!