Elementary School Life Science Activities : Page 2

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

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.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

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

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.