What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

In this science project, baking powder and vinegar are used to simulate the action of a fire extinguisher.

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

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 fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

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.

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

Be careful what you wish for... Centered around The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, this writing activity encourages your child to consider consequences.