This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Science fair project that demonstrates the effect of detergent pollution on fresh water birds' ability to stay afloat.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Kids will learn how to show the direction of magnetic field lines and create a permanent model using iron filings in this great science fair project idea.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

The project investigates how water and movement affects erosion.