Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

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

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

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

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

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!

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!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.