Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

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

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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

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

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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 first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

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

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

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

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!

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.