Kindergarten - 4th Grade Life Science Activities : Page 2

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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!

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

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.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.