Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

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

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

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

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

Wool can absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, while still keeping the body warm. She can test this theory by performing a scientific sock comparison!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

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

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!