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In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Science fair project that tests the correlation between outdoor temperature or weather conditions and the number of visible stars at night.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

This potato cannon activity teaches your middle schooler about the principle of Boyle's Law. Make a potato cannon and have a blast learning about science.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

A project to reinforce learning about the layers of the rainforest, rain forest ecosystem, and the greenhouse effect.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

Science fair project that determines the relationship between the temperature and the rate of cricket chirping. How many times do crickets chirp each minute?

Explore this fun science fair project idea to investigate different microclimates in and around your home and their effects on the plant and animal life.

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!

Determine the relationship between the speed of a sound and the temperature of the air it passes through.

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

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

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!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

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!

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Science fair project in which you will build your own algae photobioreactor which will meet the physiological requirements of algae for maximum growth.

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

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.