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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.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

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

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Make a planter full of delicious seasonings and classic grilling vegetables, great for a Fatherâs Day gift or a fun start-of-summer outdoor activity.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

In this experiment, students will discover how heat and pressure turn clay into slate, phyllite, and finally schist.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Determine if gender affects the ability to identify different smells.