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Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

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

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

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

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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!

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.

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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.

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

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.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!