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Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

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.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.