Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

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

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

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

A fun, life science sxperiment idea idea involving strategies for keeping birds away from crops using a distress call. What kind of distress call works best?

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Science fair project that builds a magnetometer and demonstrate its uses.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Learn how to demagnetize a magnet and how physics can explain this phenomenon with this enlightening science fair project.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Science fair project idea helps conceptualize probability. Compare probabilities and outcomes of cards drawn from a standard playing deck.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

This science fair project idea explores the fastest average speed a human can talk.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

This science fair project idea identifies and understands adaptations in birds.

Does skin thickness really decrease fruit spoilage? Find out in this science fair project idea!