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

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

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

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

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

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

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!

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

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

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

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

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.

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

How does rust form? Kids will learn about the roles oxygen, water, and electrons play in rust chemistry in this cool science fair project idea.

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

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.

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

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

What is elasticity? Students will investigate how this concept applies to bouncing ball physics by testing the bounces of balls made out of different materials.