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This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

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.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

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

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

If you love the idea of handing out holiday tins of homemade cookies but you're not a baker, chocolate-covered apples are the perfect solution.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.