Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

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

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

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

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

This science fair project focuses on the use of the enzyme amylase found in human saliva to break down starch into sugar.

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!

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Stir up some enthusiasm for experimentation with this candy-cracking science experiment!

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

What is vegetative reproduction? Find out how you can clone plants and regrow cabbage from a stem in this cool experiment!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

Use pepper and soap to discover some fun facts about the properties of water.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!