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

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

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

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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.

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

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

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

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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.

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.