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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

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

How does salinity affect the point at which water freezes? Kids will find out by performing this cool melting ice experiment.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

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!

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

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

Getting kids to memorize their times tables can be worse than pulling teeth. Sweeten the deal with this activity that combines math and sugar.

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.