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!

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!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

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

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

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

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

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 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.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.