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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.

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.

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

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

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

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

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!

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

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

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

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

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

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.

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.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

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

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

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

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.

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

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