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Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Multiple-choice test questions can be confusing. Here's a toolbox of tricks and strategies to help your teen become a multiple-choice master.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Investigate the advantages of the use of ceramics in engines such as the tiles used in Space Shuttle. Use iron filings and magnets.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Formulate a hypothesis and use the scientific method to determine the guess what is hidden in a box. Test abilities of volunteers, without opening box.

Check out this science project idea that will have your kid investigate how dots (also known as pixels) are used to create digital photographs.

Determine whether the application of Febreeze will lower the bacterial count.

Construct a model of radioactive decay. Learn more about radioactive decay by modeling the process using coin flips.

Study emulsifiers and learn how they are used in food science, medicine, soaps and cosmetics. Identify which materials are created using an emulsifier.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!