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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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 first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

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.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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.

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