In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

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!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

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

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

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

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

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.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

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?

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!