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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 experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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

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

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

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

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!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

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

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.