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First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

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

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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.