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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.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

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

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

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

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

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

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science fair idea is a great way for kids to explore static electricity. Kids will give a comb a static charge and watch as it separates pepper from salt.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.