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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.

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

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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 create their very own marble maze!

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

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

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

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

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

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.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

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.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

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

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