Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Your child can use leaves and grass to create his own outdoor art in celebration of Earth Day...all he needs are is the great outdoors and some creativity!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Grow borax crystals and get your child excited about Earth science with this crafty science experiment.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

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.