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This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!

If your Father's Day festivities include meeting up with extended family, why not put all the dads to the test with a chili cook-off?

This science project helps students gain understanding of bioluminescence, the phenomenon that allows fireflies and glow worms to give off light.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

The start of a new school year is always a great time to decorate a locker. Here's a way to help your middle schooler get off to an organized, stylish start!

Celebrate your kindergarten grad's new âbig kidâ status by signing off on her first library card and making a library card pocket holder to stash it in.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

What is a barycenter? Kids learn how gravity and mass influence the orbit of binary systems like planets and moons or stars and planets in this cool experiment.

Learn the anatomical and physiological differences between central and peripheral visual systems.

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

Investigate the different ways in which objects and organisms can be classified, create your own. then have volunteers classify using their own systems.

In this project, you will observe and record changes in sunspots over two weeks.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!

This experiment strives to determine if tracking of conservation habits will lead to reductions in a family's electricity and water bills.

Why spend money on fingerpaint when you can make your own? With this recipe, you can stew up your kid's favorite colors right in your kitchen.

This fun science fair project for 8th grade demonstrates what Kepler's 3rd law predicts about a planet's orbital period and its distance from the sun.

Become familiar with ratios and learn how to measure the diameter of the Sun and the Moon in this fun science fair project idea.

Get a cool science project idea on a photovoltaic cell and explore the various factors that affect the energy output of the photovoltaic cell.

Bake some cookies with an oven that collects sunlight and traps the shorter wavelengths (heat!).

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.