Science projects at home do not need to be expensive. There are great projects that can be performed using common household items.
1. Rocks and fossils:
Find some rocks and fossils around your yard or check out a book from the library. Have the students identify the rocks and fossils. There are also places where you can look at them, so you don't necessarily have to have them at home to study them.
2. Magnifying glass and binoculars:
Use binoculars and magnifying glasses on a walk through a trail at a park to study plants, dirt, rocks, trees and their bark.
3. Flashlights, batteries, wire:
Make simple electromagnets and Galvanometers.
4. Stove, refrigerator, kitchen sink:
These common kitchen appliances are the makings for a great laboratory for science experiments for children.
5. Magnet, cork, needle:
Have your homeschooling students create a compass. You can...Read More Here: