What direction should solar panels face? It's not the direction you might think! This free and enlightening science fair project helps kids discover the answer.

This project concerns activity happening millions of miles away, on the sun.

Science fair project that tests how heat affects the chemical reaction between a seltzer tablet and a glass of water.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

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.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Learn about calorimetry, make a bomb calorimeter, and experiment with combusting different nuts to see which one produces the most energy!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

The objective of this project is to examine the ways in which a passive solar house may contribute to conservation of energy.

Determine whether a hot liquid cools off faster when liquid is added before or after a two minute wait.

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.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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!

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

This science fair project idea measures physical dexterity as a function of temperature.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

Practice subtraction with your second grader in this fun dice game. Math concepts have never been more fun!

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Ordinal numbers, or numbers that indicate order, are the focus of this fun math game for young learners.

Test whether cutting up meats will make it cook faster than just cooking it whole.

The objective of this science experiment is to evaluate the affects of high and low heat capacity on a material's heat retention ability.