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Observe trends in the properties of writing materials over past 5000 years and extrapolate to future time. Prepare a table that compares writing material.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Future whistleblowers can learn about product safety standards with this exercise in writing and researching.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Test the effects of left and right handedness on writing speed and penmanship. Volunteers hand-copy the same paragraph of text, which samples look neater?

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate the effects of oxidation by writing a message in invisible ink made from lemon juice.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Build basic projector out of ordinary materials. Create several color transparency slides, demonstrate your creation.

Design a livable building that functions without electricity. Consider necessities, comforts and entertainment. Build a scale model of your design.

Research overview of architecural acoustics. Design and build a whispering wall from wood or plastic. Test which materials work best.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

This science fair project idea discovers the effect of (high) heat on animal cells.

Science fair project idea that measures fuel efficiency in cars. Calculate cost per mile by comparing fuel cost and consumption data.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Want to get your bookworm interested in science? Check out this cool activity that teaches kids how to write science fiction!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.