Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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

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

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

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

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

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.