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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 simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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!

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

These delicious Easter Basket Cupcakes are a simple, creative holiday treat. These cupcakes sit in waffle bowls with festive coconut grass and jellybean eggs.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.

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!

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

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.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.