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In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

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.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Excite your fourth grader by recreating ancient Viking myths. This miniature longboat will explore the principle of water molecules expanding when heated.

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

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

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Which do you prefer: real or artificial? Try this sweet little taste experiment to help your kids develop a better awareness of the food they consume.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Learn about where colors come from and how light absorption works in this fun experiment! All you need is a flashlight, construction paper, and cellophane!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.

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