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

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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!

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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.

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

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

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

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!