Activities : Page 4

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

By dropping a magnet through a copper tube, kids observe the cool (and bizarre) braking effect produced by the eddy currents predicted by Lenz's law.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

This science fair project investigates whether tapping the top or the side of the can will stop a vigorously-shaken can of soda from exploding.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.

In science fair projects, middle school students discover why nitrogen fixing bacteria are important to plant growth.

What are the effects of fertilizer on plant growth? What's the best fertilizer type (solid, liquid or powder)? Kids find out in this science fair project idea.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating an insulated cup that will keep beverages colder for longer than a regular cup.

This experiment evaluates if a noisy environment makes it harder for test subjects to perform tasks that require hand-eye coordination.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

What is vegetative reproduction? Find out how you can clone plants and regrow cabbage from a stem in this cool experiment!

Science fair project which identifies the most effective insulator that you could use to make a winter coat by comparing how well cloth and cotton trap heat.

Kids will make a homemade electroscope and explain how it detects static charges through induction in this fun science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea focuses on saturated and unsaturated lipids (fats and oils).

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Study the effect of music on random rote memory. Examine the practical application of music in learning and education.

Learn about where colors come from and how light absorption works in this fun experiment! All you need is a flashlight, construction paper, and cellophane!

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.