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Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Explore how you can achieve magnetic levitation with the Meissner Effect! This cool science project explains formation and applications of a superconductor.

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!

Evaluate whether people can raise the temperature of their finger using the power of their thoughts.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.