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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

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

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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 household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.