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Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

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.

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

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

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

Make this delectable custard, meringue, and graham cracker pie will give your fifth grader practice with measurement and get him interested in the kitchen.

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.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

You've heard the expression "burn rubber" but do you know how heat affects rubber? Examine the impact of temperature on rubber in this fun science experiment.

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

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Any time is the perfect time to whip up a delicious batch of fluffy pumpkin cookies.

Instead of loading up on mayonnaise based potato salad, your child can whip up something healthier: German potato salad!

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

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

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