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Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

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

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

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

How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

This science fair project idea determines if the size of the parachute will change the rate at which an object falls.

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.