This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

This science fair project idea teaches to understand and explore the concepts of crystal formation and dissolving substances.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

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

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

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

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

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.

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?