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Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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

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.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

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

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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

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

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

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

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

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

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

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

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