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This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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

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.

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.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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!

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

This activity will help your child review science concepts, learn new ones, and become familiar with examples of various concepts in science. Plus, it's fun!

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

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

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.

Here's a guide to starting a community clean-up project from scratch.