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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.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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!

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 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.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

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

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.

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.

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

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math 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.

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

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.