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

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

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

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

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

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

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

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.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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

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.

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

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

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

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.