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Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Test whether cutting up meats will make it cook faster than just cooking it whole.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

This potato cannon activity teaches your middle schooler about the principle of Boyle's Law. Make a potato cannon and have a blast learning about science.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

Science fair project that creates fog using bottles of hot and cold water.

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!

This science fair project idea quantifies exactly how accurate the cricket thermometer is.

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.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for middle school students to learn about the effects of temperature on the density of a gas such as air.