This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

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!

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.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

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

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

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 project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

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

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!