Life Science
Explore Genetics by Finding Family Traits!
For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!
Make a Water Garden
Show your child the wonders of water, life's most important element, with this fascinating water garden.
Create a Flip Book!
Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.
Practice Classification in Action
Try this simple activity with your middle schooler to help him develop an understanding of why scientific classification systems exist and how they work.
Be a Flower Spy!
In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!
Extract DNA from Spinach!
Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!
Making Mold: A Science Experiment
This scientific experiment will help your child find out about mold, while developing important hypothesis and experiment-building skills.
Be a Botanist: Make Herbarium Sheets
In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:
How Strong are a Bird's Bones?
In this 7th grade science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.
Grow Your Own Herbs
Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!
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