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

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

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

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

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

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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