Preschool - 1st Grade Life Science Resources : Page 7

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

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!

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.