Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Design a hearing protection device to protect their ears from loud noises. Examine the properties of current protective hearing devices, materials.

Learn how matter transmits sound with a simple, hands-on experiment using sand, water and air.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

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!

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

.Have you ever had problems with your wifi signal strength? In this experiment you will learn about how wireless signals pass through the air and solid objects.

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

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

Before your treat your child (and yourself!) to a yummy snack, help her learn a little about Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion!

This science fair project idea shows how a vibrating object transfers energy to whatever it touches.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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

In this cool science fair project, kids apply basic algebra to learn how to make a PVC pipe instrument while exploring concepts like frequency and resonance.

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

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?

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This awesome diffraction grating experiment puts high school students' applied math skills to the test by having them calculate the wavelength of laser light.

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.