Elementary School Life Science Activities : Page 2

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

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

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.