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

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

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.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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 recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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.

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.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.