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

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

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

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

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!

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

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

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

This science fair project idea is develops new or improved paper making techniques and encourages recycling.

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

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.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

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

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

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.