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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.