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.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Teach your little scientist about the amazing powers of gravity by comparing the falling speeds of two yummy fruits

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

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).

Get a better understanding of water content by dehydrating carrots.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.