Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

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

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

This science fair project focuses on the use of the enzyme amylase found in human saliva to break down starch into sugar.

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Science fair project which tests various sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks to find out whether one rock family is stronger than the others.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

What heats up fasterâwater or soil? 5th grade students test the specific heat of water against the specific heat of sand in this great science fair project.

Here is a cool and easy science project to determine the rate of chlorophyll breaks down and how it affects the color change of grass from green to yellow.

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

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

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

This science fair project idea investigates the ability of different whitening toothpastes to whiten teeth.

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

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

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