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Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!