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.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

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!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

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

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

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!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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!

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

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

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?

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.