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Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

Science fair project that determines how your mirror image differs from your actual image and how virtual images are constructed.

Draw some inspiration from pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and create a bright, bold comic-style image.

This experiment investigates whether font choice affects peoplesâ ability to remember the information that they read.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a model roller coaster that a marble can travel through.

Here's a fun game that will have your child hustling to find quotes to back up written assertions.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This science fair project idea explores whether a person's ability to see under very dim lighting conditions diminishes with age.

This experiment evaluates if people have an accurate perception of how much personal time they spend interacting with technology.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Determine if certain colors of light are more effective for photosynthesis. Plant seeds in cardboard boxes with different light, record visible growth.

Science fair project that studies how the brain transforms man-made symbols into meaningful concepts.

Easy and cool middle school science fair project on ripening process of fruits and measures you can take to prevent fruits from rotting and delay ripening.

Identifying angles may sound intimidating, but with this exercise, you can turn your child into an expert angler in no time!

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.