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  • Kids' Activity: Build Your Own Ant Farm!

    Making an ant farm with your children is fun and a good educational tool as well. It can teach children the importance of an eco system. Ants are a good pet for apartments or a home with limited space. They are perfect for families with allergies. And best of all, ants don't cost much to feed.

  • Kid's Activity: Create Your Own Fossil!

    Fossils offer us clues about life in the past -- even years and years ago! Normally when a plant or animal dies, its remains either decay or perhaps are consumed by another animal. Sometimes though before that happens the conditions can be just right and the remains become buried and preserved.

  • Kid's Activity: Understanding Tsunamis

    Several people wanted to know why this earthquake produced a tsunami when most earthquakes do not. To understand that, we need to know about faults. Before you start listing all my faults, such as forgetting to include parts of the experiment, I am talking about geologic faults.

  • Kid's Activity: Learn About Earthquakes!

    Anytime there is an earthquake, the news media makes a big point of talking about the Richter Scale, using it to indicate how bad the earthquake was. As we will see, the Richter Scale does not tell us nearly as much about surface effects as people think it does.

  • Kid's Activity: From Tadpole to Frog

    In April, we first hear the rigget, rigget of the frogs down by the river -- a chorus of croaks, twitters, chirps, and trills! How timely that April is National Frog Month!Below are instruction for making a frog-friendly garden and for watching your own tadpoles turn into frogs. Enjoy!

  • Kid's Activity: Natural Dyes

    Try out nature's very own dyes! Did you know that a great source for natural dyes can be found right outside your door? Roots, nuts and flowers are just a few common natural ways to make many colors. Yellow, orange, blue, red, green and brown are readily available

  • Kid's Activity: Where Will It Sprout?

    What does a seed need to grow? Let's set up an experiment with radishes and find out! Radishes must be one of the easiest things to grow on the planet. Even a non-"green" thumb can't mess this up!

  • Kid's Activity: Unravel the Mystery With Chromatography!

    What happens? Is more than one color appearing as the water spreads? Try another color. Is it a single color or a mix of colors? Do some of the different pigments travel faster and farther than others? Make a pictograph, (a picture display), showing which pigments were used to make each marker.

  • Kids' Activity: Sweet Leaves and Xylem Stems

    Today's experiment will help you see and taste that small, water-soluble molecules -- like color pigments and sugar -- are transported by water through xylem stem to the leaves and flowers of a plant.

  • Kid's Activity: Let's Make Invisible Ink!

    Invisible ink has been used to conceal secret messages for a long time. During the Revolutionary War, it wasn't uncommon for a letter to bear an invisible message as well as visible one. One of the techniques for protecting secret information was the use of disappearing inks.

  • Kids' Activity: Make Frost!

    Take a can or orange juice from the freezer and set it on the counter for a few minutes. That cold, sugary-looking coating on the outside of the can is frost. Scrape some into your hand. Did it melt into water? Where did the frost on the outside of the can come from? Did it appear out of thin air?

  • Kid's Activity: Worms Make Soil!

    Earthworms! At first glance, they seem wiggly, slimy and maybe a little scary. But they're really very interesting and useful organism. Have you ever held one in your hand? It stretches forward and then pulls itself in tightly, stretches forward and pulls in.

  • Kids' Activity: Making Snot and Boogers

    Besides hold up glasses, what is your nose good for? One very important thing -- your nose allows you to smell. Without your nose you wouldn't know how wonderful a flower smells. Holding up your glasses and allowing you to smell the flowers are only 2 of the many reasons we have a nose. Every time you take a breath your nose is very busy doing many different things.

  • Kid's Activity: Nature T-Shirts

    Finally! You can immortalize the treasures your children brought in from their last trek through the woods -- and make a great craft project out of it, too! In addition to your child and her nature collection, you'll need...

  • Kids' Activity: Build Your Own Ant Farm!

    Making an ant farm with your children is fun and a good educational tool as well. It can teach children the importance of an eco system. Ants are a good pet for apartments or a home with limited space. They are perfect for families with allergies. And best of all, ants don't cost much to feed.

  • Kid's Activity: Shadows on the Wall

    Playing with shadows serves several purposes. Besides the obvious of being educational and amusing, it often helps chase away the fears some children may have of those "mysterious creatures" lurking on the wall at night.

  • Kid's Activity: Understanding Tsunamis

    Several people wanted to know why this earthquake produced a tsunami when most earthquakes do not. To understand that, we need to know about faults. Before you start listing all my faults, such as forgetting to include parts of the experiment, I am talking about geologic faults.

  • Kid's Activity: Let's Make Tissue Butterflies

    Since it's a little too early in the year for most of us to enjoy watching butterflies in their natural setting, let's make some from clothespins and tissue paper. Build a bunch and fly through the living room!

  • Kid's Activity: Learn About Earthquakes!

    Anytime there is an earthquake, the news media makes a big point of talking about the Richter Scale, using it to indicate how bad the earthquake was. As we will see, the Richter Scale does not tell us nearly as much about surface effects as people think it does.

  • Kid's Activity: Teach Basic Science Skills

    Children are natural scientists -- curious about the world around them and more than willing to explore. Encourage your child to learn more by offering them the basic science skills of observing, predicting and evaluating their subject.