Life Science Activities : Page 8

In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

In this science fair project, we will test how different kinds and shades of hair respond to bleach.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

This project determines how much the rebound rates of tennis balls change after ten games.

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

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

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

Science fair project that determines whether windmills can be designed so that birds will not feed on them. Will they discriminate between different patterns?

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

Science fair project that cultivates slime mold and monitors the stages of its development.

Determine which video game elevates the heart rate best and burns the most calories.

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.

Try this simple activity with your middle schooler to help him develop an understanding of why scientific classification systems exist and how they work.

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

This project explores whether the tempo of the background music we hear in a businesses is important to the environment and how customers move.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

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.

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!