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Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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!

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.

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

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

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

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

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.

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.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.