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To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Place mushroom caps on poster board, label samples. Check beneath mushroom caps for "prints" of spores. Record and interpret prints left behind.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

Determine whether magic salt is more effective at melting snow than regular salt. Pour one ounce of salt over the ice cubes, compare the melt downs.

Study the physical and chemical changes that make hair curl or straighten. Study ingredients, function of chemicals like thioglycolic acid.

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

Measure temperature change over time using a variety of insulation materials. Be creative with insulation materials: scarves, yarn, socks, feathers, oil, etc

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Start thinking about how the internet works by assembling an Ethernet cable of your own!

Learn about how we localize objects and beings in space through sound and about monaural auditory mechanisms and binaural auditory mechanisms.

Explore the belief in astrology as a predictive system.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

In this classic Ivory soap experiment, kids learn what happens to different types of soap in the microwave, and why!

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

Wild-type and GAPDH mutant Caenorhabditis elegans were used as an example of how glucose or sugar affects the lifespan of humans.

Create an organic plastic product using vinegar and cream. Track decomposition over course of several weeks. Compare decomposition with traditional plastics.

Learn about the factors that influence group conformity.

Determine if picking up fallen food in 5 seconds or less prevents the transfer of bacteria from the ground.

Construct and experiment with a periscope using reflected light rays to gather an image.

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

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

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.