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Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

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

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

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

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

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

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

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

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

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

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

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?

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!