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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.

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

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

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

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

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

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.

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

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

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

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

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

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

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

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

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

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

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

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!