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.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

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!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

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

If you're looking for a fun way to have your child gain practice pattern-making while working out fine motor skills, making Washi eggs is the perfect activity.

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!

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

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

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

This science fair project idea identifies clouds as a means of predicting the weather.

This science fair project idea researches how your choice of clothing affect how hot or cool you feel during the day.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

If you love the idea of handing out holiday tins of homemade cookies but you're not a baker, chocolate-covered apples are the perfect solution.

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

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

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

This Halloween math activity book is a whole lot of fun.

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

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.

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

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!