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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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

In this simple circular motion experiment, you'll observe tangential velocity and learn about how acceleration and centripetal force affect an object.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

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

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Did you know that August is American Artist Month? Your child can explore the art of photography by using a digital camera to capture the landscape around her.

Devise an argument for or against the possibility of resurrectin extinct species through DNA manipulation. Analyze data, report findings.

This science fair project investigates why the number of visible stars changes from place to place.

In this experiment you will use plastic and magnets to test your local soil composition.