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

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

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

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

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

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

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

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

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

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

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

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.