Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

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

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!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Climates with more snowfall have more coniferous forests and fewer deciduous ? Learn about how pine trees in a coniferous forest adapted to withstand snow.

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

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

In this experiment, kids will see if pruning tomato plants makes them more fruitful and learn about the factors that contribute to a plant's fruit production.

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

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

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

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.