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What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Make an elegant Mother's Day card to celebrate the love and work in raising kids.

Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Tap into your Irish roots by making an adorable leprechaun hat vase for St. Patrick's Day in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

The objective of this science fair project is to test the growth rate of a plan in a crystal medium in comparison to traditional soil.

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

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.

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

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Science fair project that determines whether landscaping fabric impacts the ability of plants to receive water.

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

Help your third grader craft a homemade version of this classic strategy game, using just an old egg carton and a few beads!

This science fair project compares the allelopathic affects of juglone, a chemical agent produced by the Black Walnut tree, on two plants.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.