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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.

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

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

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

If your fourth grader is obsessed with all things glow-in-the-dark, then here's an activity that will really light up her imagination!

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

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

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

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

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.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

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.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

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!

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!

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.

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

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

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

Excite your fourth grader by recreating ancient Viking myths. This miniature longboat will explore the principle of water molecules expanding when heated.

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!

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

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