Compare animal and plant fats and observe, and record, and draw conclusions about their similarities and differences.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

In this project, the affect of acid rain is simulated by the acid, vinegar.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

This science fair project enhances the understanding and awareness of energy use and explores the concept of energy efficient.

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Ant behavior is closely related to light intensity. This free science fair project idea examines how fast ants dig when they are exposed to to light and dark.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

In this project, the fingerprints of family members are compared to determine if people from the same family have similar fingerprints.

In this cool catalase and hydrogen peroxide experiment, kids put a potato in a jar of hydrogen peroxide to see how catalase acts as an enzyme.

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

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

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

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!

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

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.