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Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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.

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

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

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 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!

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.

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

In this math and science activity, help your middleschooler learn about proportion and measurement with just her shadow and a tape measure!

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

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.