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Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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

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

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

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

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

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

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!