Earth and Space Science Activities : Page 6

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 child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

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!

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

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

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 household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

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

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

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

If your mom likes flowers, make her a sweet gift that she'll treasure with this fun craft, a pretty Pressed Flowers Card!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

Science fair project that determines whether windmills can be designed so that birds will not feed on them. Will they discriminate between different patterns?

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.

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

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.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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!

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.