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If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

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

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.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

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.

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

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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.

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

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

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

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

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

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

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?