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Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

Create a DIY Electromagnet! Using a 9v battery to create an electrical field around a nail, students explore electromagnetism in this cool science project idea.

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

Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

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!

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

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!

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

In this CD hovercraft science project, students will construct their own DIY hovercraft.

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

Make a seed bomb and let your junior guerilla gardener spread flowers far and wide.

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

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