Science for Parents
Simple experiments with everyday materials. Each guide tells you exactly what to grab, what to do, and what questions to ask so your child discovers the science themselves.
At-home experiments and teaching guides for every science strand.
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Hands-on science activities with materials you already have
Use ice, water, and steam to watch matter change states right in your kitchen. Your child will observe melting, freezing, and evaporation with everyday materials.
Build ramps, roll balls, and test how pushes and pulls change the way things move. Your child will explore forces, speed, and direction with simple materials.
Grow beans in a bag and watch roots, stems, and leaves appear. Your child will test what plants need to grow and observe each plant part doing its job.
Grab a magnet and explore your house. Your child will test which materials are magnetic, discover attract and repel, and learn what makes magnets special.
Head outside with a checklist and investigate what is living, non-living, and once-living. Your child will apply the four characteristics of life to real objects they find.
Use a simple recipe to teach fractions with measuring cups and spoons. Your child will halve, double, and measure ingredients while learning that fractions are something you can see, scoop, and eat.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching weather and seasons — from daily weather observation through the water cycle, types of clouds, and why Earth has seasons. Simple tools and activities that turn your child into a backyard meteorologist.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching the water cycle — evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Hands-on experiments and activities that make the water cycle visible, measurable, and unforgettable.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching the solar system — the sun, planets, moons, and beyond. Scale models, observation activities, and the key concepts that build real understanding of our place in space.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching properties of matter — what things are made of, how we describe them, and how to build scientific observation skills through hands-on exploration of color, shape, size, weight, and texture.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching plant life cycles — from seed to sprout to adult plant and back to seed. Hands-on growing activities, observation journals, and the science concepts behind germination, growth, pollination, and seed dispersal.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching the major body systems — skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, and nervous. How to make anatomy tangible through hands-on models, experiments, and your child's own body.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching habitats, ecosystems, food chains, and food webs. How to help children understand the connections between living things and their environments — from backyard observations to biome studies.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching forces and motion — pushes, pulls, gravity, friction, and Newton's laws. Hands-on activities that build real understanding of how and why things move.
A parent's guide to teaching forms of energy to elementary children. Hands-on activities for light, heat, and sound energy that build real understanding of how energy transfers, transforms, and powers everything.
A homeschool parent's guide to teaching how scientists group animals. From basic vertebrate and invertebrate categories through mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects — with sorting activities that build real classification skills.
Set up a simple sensory station with everyday household items. Your child will use sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch to observe and describe the world like a real scientist.
Grab a handful of household objects and let your child sort them by color, shape, size, texture, and weight. This hands-on activity builds the scientific skill of classification.
Lumastery pairs these at-home experiments with adaptive math and reading practice, so your child builds the full picture.
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