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Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

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.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

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

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

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

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

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

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.