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Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

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

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.

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

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.

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

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

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

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.

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

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

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

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!

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

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

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!

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!

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

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?