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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

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

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.

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

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.

Make this easy recipe for Halloween, featuring white chocolate and pretzels, for a crispy, creepy treat!

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

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.