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In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

How does water pressure change with depth? Kids learn how pressure works underwater with this cool and easy demo.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

This experiment has students record rat behavior to learn about the benefits of rats and research rat myths throughout history.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!