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

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

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

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

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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This science fair project idea investigates how color affects temperature.

This science fair project idea explores whether a plastic slinky works as well as a metal slinky when walking it down the stairs.

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

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!

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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.

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

This project investigates the affect of storage temperature on microwave popcorn.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Does dough rise faster with unbleached or bleached flour? Investigate in this science fair project idea.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.