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

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

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

How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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!

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.