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This fun elementary school science fair project idea helps students in designing an amusement park using their knowledge of forces and simple machines.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Make a beautiful nature silhouette to remember a family walk in the park or a camping trip with friends.

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Explore the great outdoors and make lasting memories with your child in this fun fall activity! Children will make a decorative piece with the leaves they collect and develop their fine and gross motor skills through cutting and coloring.

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This project determines the age of a tree using a growth factor chart instead of cutting the tree down to count the rings in its base.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Teenagers across the country are getting involved in the issues they care about, and your child shouldn't be the exception to the rule.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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

Entertain your next batch of energetic youngsters with a Halloween-inspired candy hunt!

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.