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

Show your kids the power of baking powder by conducting a simple experiment. Make four batches of cornbread, all identical except for one thing: baking powder!

Looking for an enjoyable evening activity you can do with your kids? Study the stars: help them learn about constellations by making one of their own.

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Celebrate April Fools' Day with a science prank that is sure to amuse...and educate too!

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

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

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.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

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!

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

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

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

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

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.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

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.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.