Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.