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This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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.

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

This science fair project idea creates a sedimentary rock and to investigate what takes place during the rock cycle.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

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.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

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!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

What's the best way to make DIY compost? Kids will learn about aerobic and anaerobic decomposition while learning to appreciate the value of composting.

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

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

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking 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.