Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

This project examines the vulnerability of fruit flies, Drosophila melanigaster, to irradiation. Will exposure result in mutations?

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

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!

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Check out this cool middle school science fair project idea to find the difference between organically grown and commercial brands of foods.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Try this simple activity with your middle schooler to help him develop an understanding of why scientific classification systems exist and how they work.