Life Science Activities : Page 2

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

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

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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!

This project explores the interaction between air pressure and playing surface in determining a basketballâs bounce.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

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

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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!

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.

Can you wink? Is your ability to wink genetic or simply based on chance? Find out in this science fair project idea!

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

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

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.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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

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

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

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.