Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

This project compares the strength of one, two, and three-ply toilet paper.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Examine which metal conducts more heat by boiling water in 3 pans made of aluminum, copper, and stainless steel.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

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

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Explore the craters, maria, and highlands on the surface of the Moon! In this fun science project you'll create a 3-D model of the moon using paper mache.

Wool can absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, while still keeping the body warm. She can test this theory by performing a scientific sock comparison!

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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

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

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

Check out this cool science fair project idea that models the behavior of the cold desert plants: xerophytes and halophytes.

This science fair project idea explores the different properties & interactions of sugar molecules.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project idea investigates whether plants can survive being frozen.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.