Life Science Activities : Page 6

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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!

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

This project examines the vulnerability of fruit flies, Drosophila melanigaster, to irradiation. Will exposure result in mutations?

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.

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.

Check out this cool middle school science fair project idea to find the difference between organically grown and commercial brands of foods.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

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!