Elementary School Life Science Activities : Page 4

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

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.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

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 a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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!

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!