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

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

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

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!

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 recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

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

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

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

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.

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