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Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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?

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

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

What keeps a an item cooler, polymer crystals or ice? Find out in this cool science experiment!

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

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

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the risk of mechanical deterioration of artifacts placed in a storage box due to mold outbreaks.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

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.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.