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

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.

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

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

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

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

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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 simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

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