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

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.

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

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

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

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

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

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!

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

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

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

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

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

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

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.

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 explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.