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

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

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.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

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

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

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

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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.

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

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

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.