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

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

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

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 experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

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

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

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

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.