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How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

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!

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

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

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Make a planter full of delicious seasonings and classic grilling vegetables, great for a Fatherâs Day gift or a fun start-of-summer outdoor activity.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

What cause the phases of the moon? Make a model to see how the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth cause the crescent, gibbous, quarter, full, and new moon.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!