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For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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.

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

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

What is biodiversity? Kids will study different areas of their backyards to see which is the most diverse to learn about biodiversity and random sampling.

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.

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore which other common animals besides scorpions glow under a UV Black light.