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

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

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.

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!

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

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

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

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."