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This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

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!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

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!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.