Here’s an activity that gives your young learner a way to develop his own measurement tool for describing wind force.

Averages come up in everyday life all the time, and knowing what averages mean and how to find averages helps your child think about them differently whenever they come up. There are lots of real-world situations that you can use to help your child practice calculating averages, from baseball scores to hours of sleep.
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Get ready for a fast, lively game that uses elementary math facts!

Students use models to study how things work. In this activity, pudding serves as a (delicious) model of plate tectonics - you get to have your model and eat it, too!

Helping kids to think numerically and providing them with chances to practice working with number facts are two things parents can easily achieve. Last week’s Let Me Count the Ways activity practiced numerical skills at home. This week, let’s take the activity on the road!

Bubbles are the perfect medium for the home scientist. They are fascinating, easy to work with, and (ahhhh) easy to clean up. For elementary school students, there is pleasure in making and observing bubbles and satisfaction from investigating the materials used to make them. For older students, their properties will be studied in chemistry and [...]

Helping children to think numerically and providing them with chances to practice working with number facts are two things parents can easily achieve. Many of your child’s daily activities have numerical components, and when you find them and play with them together, everyone comes out ahead.

Thinking about summer reading? One way to help your child become a stronger reader and encourage your child to enjoy reading is to make his own reading corner, creating a place and space to keep the books he likes and collects.