Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

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

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

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!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

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.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Crayons aren't just good for creating colorful masterpieces -- they're also great for science!

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Have you ever noticed the way a dropped stone makes a fun pattern in a pond or lake? What's the science behind these splashy occurrences?

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!

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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

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.