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

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

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

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

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.

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!

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

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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

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.

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.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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!

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

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.

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.

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.

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

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

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

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.