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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!

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

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

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

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

The objective of this science fair project is to test the growth rate of a plan in a crystal medium in comparison to traditional soil.

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

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Science fair project that determines whether landscaping fabric impacts the ability of plants to receive water.

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

This science fair project compares the allelopathic affects of juglone, a chemical agent produced by the Black Walnut tree, on two plants.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

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

Kids learn how to prevent erosion by growing grass. They'll test soil with grass against raw soil in this revealing science fair project idea for 4th grade.

What are the effects of fertilizer on plant growth? What's the best fertilizer type (solid, liquid or powder)? Kids find out in this science fair project idea.

Does dough rise faster with unbleached or bleached flour? Investigate in this science fair project idea.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea explores alcoholic fermentation at work by making your own soda.

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.