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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

What cause the phases of the moon? Make a model to see how the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth cause the crescent, gibbous, quarter, full, and new moon.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

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

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.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

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

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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!

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

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

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

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

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

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

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

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

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.