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This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

In this experiment, students will discover how heat and pressure turn clay into slate, phyllite, and finally schist.

Got a young scientist at home? Try this project with him!Create your own molecule design with this home-made clay recipe and some toothpicks!

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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!

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

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.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Future engineers, unite! Discover how to keep a sandcastleâs bridge from falling into the moat.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

What is a barycenter? Kids learn how gravity and mass influence the orbit of binary systems like planets and moons or stars and planets in this cool experiment.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

This science fair project idea investigates if heat from direct sunlight is hotter than heat from reflected sunlight.

Science fair project that examines the physical features of elephants and butterflies and draws conclusions about their similarities.

Check out this fun science fair project idea to explore how building on different types of soil affects the relative stability of buildings in an earthquake.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!