For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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.

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.

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

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

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

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.

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

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.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

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!

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

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.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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!

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.