When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

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

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

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

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.