Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

From Canada's flag, to the Toronto Maple Leafs, to classic maple syrup cookies, the maple tree is very much a part of Canadian heritage.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!