This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

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

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.