Life Science Activities & Experiments

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

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!

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your first-grader explore four different kinds of measurement, using his hand and a few simple household tools.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your kid with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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.

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

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!

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.