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Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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

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

Young scientists will investigate people's preferences for saltiness, and make some inferences about genetics and diet.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, 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.

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

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

This easy and inexpensive paper towel science project introduces kids to important physical concepts like cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity.

Check out this cool science fair project idea that models the behavior of the cold desert plants: xerophytes and halophytes.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.