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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

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

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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.

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

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

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.

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!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

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

This project investigates the affect of storage temperature on microwave popcorn.

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.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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.

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

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

This science project uses Mohsâ Hardness Test to show kids how to compare the hardness of different types of minerals.

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.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?