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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!

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

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!

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.

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.

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

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

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

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!

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock.

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.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!