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Your child can create his very own pine forest covered in snow and learn some forest vocabulary too!

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.

Climates with more snowfall have more coniferous forests and fewer deciduous ? Learn about how pine trees in a coniferous forest adapted to withstand snow.

A project to reinforce learning about the layers of the rainforest, rain forest ecosystem, and the greenhouse effect.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

This science fair project determines whether the types of plants growing in a Pacific Northwest rain forest environment are influenced by the soil acidity.

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

What is biodiversity? Kids will study different areas of their backyards to see which is the most diverse to learn about biodiversity and random sampling.

Is there more air particulate matter in an urban or rural environment? Test your knowledge with this science fair project.

This project researches whether the type of land use affects the water quality of Queenstown Creek.

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

What are buttress roots? In this fun science project, make a model of a rainforest tree and learn how they help trees survive in the tropical rainforest!

Celebrate the changing seasons with this fun, hands-on art activity that will teach your child about the different colors of the seasons.

Make a string art tree to celebrate the holiday season with your kid. This string art tree craft allows you make a unique decoration using simple ingredients.

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Help your first grader create special 3D paper Christmas trees that he can use to decorate the home or give to friends.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Bring snowy days inside by painting a winter wonderland scene using watercolors and melted snow in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Celebrate Earth Day by making a poster that encourages people not to litter.

Science fair project that cultivates slime mold and monitors the stages of its development.

Science fair project that determines whether spreading a moss soup over an area increases moss growth.

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

Invigorate your fourth grader's mind by helping him turn his room into a woven masterpiece using various lengths of material.