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Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

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

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

Learn about savanna flora and fauna in this science project! Take a look at characteristics of tropical grassland plants and animals that help them survive.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Teach your little scientist about the amazing powers of gravity by comparing the falling speeds of two yummy fruits

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.