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Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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.

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

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

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

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

This activity will help your child tackle those tricky fraction word problems by way of a hands-on method.

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

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!

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

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

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

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

Most timeline activities are all about history. Make timelines more relevant and personal for your child by focusing on the hours and minutes of his day.

Money is a difficult concept to grasp. Help your kid get the hang of it with this pocket change triple Venn diagram activity.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.