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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

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

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

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.

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.

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

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.

This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

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

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

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.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

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.

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.

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

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

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.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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

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.