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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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.

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

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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 science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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.