Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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?

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

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

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.

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

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

Bring back the groovy memories by making shrinky dinks using household materials, while learning about the science of plastics. Here's how to get started:

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!

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Explore the wave-particle duality of light! Learn how light can behave as both a wave and a particle in this cool physics science fair project idea for kids.