Science Activities and Experiments
Do-It-Yourself Solar Eclipse!
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Do-It-Yourself Solar Eclipse!
Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!
3rd grade
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How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag
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How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag
Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!
4th grade
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Hanging Vase
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Hanging Vase
Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!
2nd grade
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Bounce an Egg
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Bounce an Egg
Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!
3rd grade
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Design Your Own Planet
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Design Your Own Planet
In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.
Preschool
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
Preschool
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Spring Collage
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Spring Collage
Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!
Preschool
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Learning Why and How to Compost
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Learning Why and How to Compost
Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.
2nd grade
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
Preschool
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
Preschool
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Design Challenge: Design a Roller Coaster
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Design Challenge: Design a Roller Coaster
In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a model roller coaster that a marble can travel through.
6th grade
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.
2nd grade
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Explore Soil Erosion
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Explore Soil Erosion
Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.
3rd grade
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Ice Cream Science
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Ice Cream Science
What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!
1st grade
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Butterfly Life Cycle
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Butterfly Life Cycle
The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.
2nd grade
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!
3rd grade
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
Preschool
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.
Kindergarten
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Make Edible Amber Fossils
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Make Edible Amber Fossils
Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!
2nd grade
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Pollution Experiment
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Pollution Experiment
Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.
Kindergarten
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Construct a Weather Spinner
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Construct a Weather Spinner
This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.
2nd grade
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Design Challenge: Balloon Car
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Design Challenge: Balloon Car
In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a car that can be powered by a balloon!
6th grade
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Design Challenge: Design a Bouncy Ball
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Design Challenge: Design a Bouncy Ball
In this design challenge, students will be tasked with creating a bouncy ball polymer!
6th grade
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Design Challenge: Insulate a Cup
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Design Challenge: Insulate a Cup
In this challenge, students are tasked with creating an insulated cup that will keep beverages colder for longer than a regular cup.
6th grade
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Earth: More Land or More Water?
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Earth: More Land or More Water?
Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?
1st grade
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Design and Build a City
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Design and Build a City
Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.
3rd grade
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Make a Pinhole Projector!
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Make a Pinhole Projector!
Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!
4th grade
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.
3rd grade
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