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Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

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

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

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

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

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

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.

For a fun activity that takes the dull out of decimals, show you child how to gain a better understanding of decimals...as dollar amounts!

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

The crust is fun for kids to mix and roll out, and the filling overflows with vitamin and anti-oxidant packed berries!

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

If it's Easter, it must be time for egg hunts. But we have to admit, most kids would rather take a bite out of a yummy cupcake than a hard-boiled egg.

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

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Is horse manure a possible energy source in a crisis? Use calorimetry to find out how much energy horse manure can produce in this science fair project.

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.