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.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the differences in heat absorption for darker colors vs. lighter colors.

Ant behavior is closely related to light intensity. This free science fair project idea examines how fast ants dig when they are exposed to to light and dark.

Kids make a paperclip perform an act of magnetic levitation and test how effective various materials are at magnetic shielding in this science fair project.

Science fair project which tests various sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks to find out whether one rock family is stronger than the others.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

The objective of this science fair project is to study the photosynthesis process and demonstrate the important role that leaves play in the process.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the basic principles of air pressure using simple materials like a balloon, straw and string.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

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

Determine which kind of rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) has the greatest reservoir capacity, which is the ability to hold the most oil and natural gas.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the risk of mechanical deterioration of artifacts placed in a storage box due to mold outbreaks.

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.

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.