Life Science Activities : Page 8

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

This project will examine the relationship between wind velocity and direction and the distance a baseball travels.

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

Science fair project that cultivates slime mold and monitors the stages of its development.

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

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!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

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!

This project determines whether hands-on practice, mental practice, or no practice leads to better shooting of free-throws.

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

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.

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

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

This experiment researches if you gave different amounts of food to mosquito larvae would they grow faster or slower

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

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

This experiment evaluates if people of a specific gender or age more likely have an elevated number of taste buds, allowing them to taste what others cannot.

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

This project explores whether the tempo of the background music we hear in a businesses is important to the environment and how customers move.