Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

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

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

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

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

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

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

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.

What is persistence of vision? With this hands-on science fair project idea, students will demonstrate this cool and dramatic phenomenon in their own classroom.

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

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.