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!

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

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

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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!

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

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

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

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

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

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.

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

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!

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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.

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

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.

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 crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!