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This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

This project examines what types of objects burn and which burn faster and cleaner.

This science fair project demonstrates the principles of reflection through simple experiments involving mirrors and light.

Along with being an interesting science activity, dehydrated strawberries are also tasty â and healthy!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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.

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

The objective of this science fair project is to set up a compost bin to convert food scraps and organic waste.

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

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.