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!

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

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

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

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.

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

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!

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

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

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

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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.

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

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

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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!

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

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.

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

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

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.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

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.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!