Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.