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Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

If your fourth grader is obsessed with all things glow-in-the-dark, then here's an activity that will really light up her imagination!

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.