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What keeps a an item cooler, polymer crystals or ice? Find out in this cool science experiment!

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.

This activity will help your child tackle those tricky fraction word problems by way of a hands-on method.

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

The crust is fun for kids to mix and roll out, and the filling overflows with vitamin and anti-oxidant packed berries!

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

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

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.

Whether it's a bag lunch, goody bag, or used to decorate a table, this cute little fox bag is sure to make your kid smile.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the risk of mechanical deterioration of artifacts placed in a storage box due to mold outbreaks.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.