Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

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

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

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

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

Make a planter full of delicious seasonings and classic grilling vegetables, great for a Fatherâs Day gift or a fun start-of-summer outdoor activity.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.