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

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

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 kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

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

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