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Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

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!

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 second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.