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

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!

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

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.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

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

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

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!

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

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

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

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

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

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

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!

The purpose of this science fair project is to build a basic radio.

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

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.

It's food. It's Thanksgiving tradition. And guess what: Cranberry Sauce is also science! Try our simple recipe/experiment.

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.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

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

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

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

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!

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

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?