What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

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

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Kids will learn how to clean fish tank the natural way. Add catfish to the tank and see if your water gets cleaner.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.