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.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

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

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

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

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

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.

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

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

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.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

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!

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.