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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

Learn how to tell time by the sun with this cool science fair project idea that tracks how the accuracy of a sundial changes over time.

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

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

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

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.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

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

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 second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

How does a compass work? What's a magnetic field? Kids will build their own compass at home to find the answers in this great science fair project idea.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

How does a flashlight work? Kids will make a complete circuit and explore how voltage contributes to brightness with this science fair project idea.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

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

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.

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.