First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

Here's how you and your teen can stage your own formal debateâbeyond arguing why chores are unethical! Formal debates improve teens' critical thinking skills.

Science fair project that helps you create your own compost pile in order to test the efficiency of different methods of composting.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

What cause the phases of the moon? Make a model to see how the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth cause the crescent, gibbous, quarter, full, and new moon.

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

Make a seed bomb and let your junior guerilla gardener spread flowers far and wide.

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

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

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.

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.

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!

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.