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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.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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 is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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

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

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

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

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: