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

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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 household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

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!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

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

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.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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!

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

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!

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

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

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

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.