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What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Looking for an enjoyable evening activity you can do with your kids? Study the stars: help them learn about constellations by making one of their own.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

In this science fair project, students examine under what conditions individual plants release seeds and how far the seeds are released.

Science fair project that examines how winter storms form and the relationship between temperature, moisture and snow.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.