Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

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

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

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

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

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

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

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Make this easy recipe for Halloween, featuring white chocolate and pretzels, for a crispy, creepy treat!

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

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.

Add simple fractions in this fun math card game for second graders. This game is very similar to Blackjack, or 21, but it's entirely kid friendly!

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

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!