Elementary School Life Science Activities : Page 4

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

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

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.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

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.

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.