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In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

This science project challenges students to take learned information about weather and climate control and apply it to come up with creative ideas of their own.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Science fair project that helps you create your own compost pile in order to test the efficiency of different methods of composting.

Science fair project that determines whether windmills can be designed so that birds will not feed on them. Will they discriminate between different patterns?

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

Want to get your bookworm interested in science? Check out this cool activity that teaches kids how to write science fiction!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Here's a guide to starting a community clean-up project from scratch.

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