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Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

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!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

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

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Practice subtraction with your second grader in this fun dice game. Math concepts have never been more fun!

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

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

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