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

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 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.

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

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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.

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

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

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