Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

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

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.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

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

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

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

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.