This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

Have you ever noticed the way a dropped stone makes a fun pattern in a pond or lake? What's the science behind these splashy occurrences?

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

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

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Science fair project that compares the ecology of different soil samples by identifying which sample has the most invertebrates living in it.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

This science fair project idea studies which kind of rock (sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic) is most damaged by frozen water.

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

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

This science project explores the concept of being opaque or clear. Can you make something clear opaque? Or something opaque clear?

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

Science fair project that demonstrates the effect of detergent pollution on fresh water birds' ability to stay afloat.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

Make a seed bomb and let your junior guerilla gardener spread flowers far and wide.

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

Kids will learn how to show the direction of magnetic field lines and create a permanent model using iron filings in this great science fair project idea.

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.