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

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

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

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!