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Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

You've heard the expression "burn rubber" but do you know how heat affects rubber? Examine the impact of temperature on rubber in this fun science experiment.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

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

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the risk of mechanical deterioration of artifacts placed in a storage box due to mold outbreaks.