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Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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

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.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

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

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

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

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Science fair project that examines the behavior of water and gravel in creek beds and the formation of sedimentary rocks.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.