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Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

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

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

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

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

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

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

How does salinity affect the point at which water freezes? Kids will find out by performing this cool melting ice experiment.

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

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!