2nd and 3rd Grade Activities : Page 5

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this experiment you explore how tectonic plates move to create land and expand bodies of water.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!