What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

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!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Science fair project that determines whether tapping a pomegranate with a spoon helps it release its seeds.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

In this CD hovercraft science project, students will construct their own DIY hovercraft.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

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

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

Science fair project that identifies the differences between soils from different environments and attempts to figure out why those differences exist.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.