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Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Design and build an invention inspired by Rube Goldberg's designs. Build your invention. Test the machine, write a detailed report.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Take the plunge into handcrafting with this neat and tidy soap recipe. Here's how to create your own personalized soap.

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Here's one way to recycle: turn a tuna can into a mini barbecue and teach your child the power of resourcefulness!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

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

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Design a livable building that functions without electricity. Consider necessities, comforts and entertainment. Build a scale model of your design.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

Make a list of items that need repurposing such as e-waste, batteries and mattresses. Invent your own original repurposed design.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Invite your middle schooler to bungee jump ... with eggs! This experiment will demonstrate Newton's laws of physics in an entertaining way.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.