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To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Teach your child what a sugar plum is with this easy recipe that gets your child to chop, mix, and roll his way to a delicious treat.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Science fair project that examines how yeast grows, and which conditions allow for optimal growth. What types of nutrients does yeast prefer?

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

The objective of this experiment is to evaluate the effects of acid rain on plants.

Demonstrate the capillary function in plants by adding food coloring to glasses of water. Slice stalks of celery and leafy tops. Compare color of leaves

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Read on this high school science fair project idea to get basic information on the process of heat transfer and the conditions under which the transfer occurs.

Science fair project which simulates the global conveyor belts on a small scale, and observes the effects of wind, density and temperature on water movement.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Check out this fun science fair project idea to learn about seismic waves and how fast they travel during an earthquake.

Here's an activity to inspire your preschooler to learn to recognize numbers and count than by using fun and funky rubber stamps to make her own flashcards!

This project examines the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water, with and without oil.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

This experiment will explore the best way to create a perfect soft-boiled egg.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.