Life Science Activities : Page 7

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

This project determines how much the rebound rates of tennis balls change after ten games.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Try this simple activity with your middle schooler to help him develop an understanding of why scientific classification systems exist and how they work.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

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.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

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.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.