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This science fair project compares the allelopathic chemical produced by the Black Walnut tree to a commercial herbicide in stopping the growth of a shrub.

Is your child tired of the same old fries with dinner? Invite him to bake up some tasty zucchini fries to accompany the next family meal.

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Science fair project that determines whether tapping a pomegranate with a spoon helps it release its seeds.

Sometimes a sandwich is just ho hum boring. Help your kid make lunch fun by threading her favorite ingredients on a skewer for a quick and easy sandwich kabob.

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

This fun middle school science fair project idea helps student discover the concepts behind deep sea diving and how Cartesian divers work.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

Even chocolate can make an appearance in kindergarten math. These truffles are truly easy to make and add a bit of decadence to math practice!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

In this activity, your child will design their own Best Self Journal to reflect on ways they have been their best each day.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

If your child is hungry to work on his sewing skills, put together a plate of this felt play food ravioli.

On Valentine's Day or any other time you want to share the love, make these cute red felt button heart decorations and add some flash to your fashion!

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.

This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

Determine if it is easier to memorize colors, words, words in phrases, pictures or numbers. Determine at when retention rate in each category is the best.

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the properties of friction and apply this knowledge to search for a near-frictionless surface.

This science fair project idea discovers the effect of (high) heat on animal cells.

Get your reluctant teen excited about writing: by alternating "found" phrases from a favorite book with his own writing, he'll create a unique, profound poem.

This experiment evaluates whether the phenomenon of "choice blindness" occurs more often with men or women.

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

Fireworks are such an exciting part of part of summer festivities, but it's sad when the show is over. Keep them alive all year long with watercolor fireworks.

Check out this science project idea that will have your kid investigate how dots (also known as pixels) are used to create digital photographs.