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Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

This project uses science and art to help students learn and teach others about Earth's endangered and extinct species.

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

Soil and energy don't go together, right? That would be as bizarre as a pairing of peanut butter and marshmallows! Well, actually...

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

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

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

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

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

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Has your kid noticed how much bigger the moon looks when it's low in the sky? Here's an activity you can do to show them that it's just an optical illusion.

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

This science fair project explains the process of how the lungs expand and contract with the help of the diaphragm.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.