Life Science Activities : Page 8

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

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.

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!

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!

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

This science fair project idea determines an average personâs ability to use their anaerobic power system over a period of 2 weeks.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate current methods of detecting counterfeit money, in particular counterfeit detection pens.

This experiment researches if you gave different amounts of food to mosquito larvae would they grow faster or slower

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

This project determines whether hands-on practice, mental practice, or no practice leads to better shooting of free-throws.