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Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

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

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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

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.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science 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.

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.

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

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

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.

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

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

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

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.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!