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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

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.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

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

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!