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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!

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

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

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.

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

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

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

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

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.

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

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!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

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

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

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

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

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

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

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.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.