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In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

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!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Science fair project which uses coins flips to visually demonstrate the probability of an event and how to express it.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

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!

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

Learn about savanna flora and fauna in this science project! Take a look at characteristics of tropical grassland plants and animals that help them survive.

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

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.

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

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!