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

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

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

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

Science fair project which determines whether it is numerically possible to be connected to every person on the earth within six degrees of separation.

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!

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

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

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

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

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

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

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

This science fair project idea deals with the qualities of shade on a sunny day.

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.

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!

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.

This science fair project idea researches how your choice of clothing affect how hot or cool you feel during the day.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

This science fair project idea researches the effects of acid rain on plant growth.

In this fun experiment, we'll find out how color affects heat absorption!

Find out whether packaged seeds actually do expire in this new science fair project idea.

Will potatoes spud or sprout faster in dry, dark, or cold conditions? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.

Check out this science project idea to compare organic produce to non-organic produce and how preservatives in food extend the shelf life of goods.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

This science fair project compares the allelopathic affects of juglone, a chemical agent produced by the Black Walnut tree, on two plants.

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.