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Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

Learn how the focal length of a lens affects a magnifying glass's magnifying power in this cool science fair project idea for 8th grade.

Use these monster party ideas to throw a spooky monster bash. Try these monster party ideas when planning your next Halloween or birthday party.

This science fair project idea studies how talking on a cell phone affect driving?

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

This science fair project idea examines whether music has an effect on a person's ability to complete a simple task that requires concentration.

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Learn the chemistry and physics of the brain, how our nervous system work. Demonstrate that the brain is an electrical and chemical machine.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Want to turn your child into an expert orator, but don't know how to rid him of the middle school mumbles? Try this activity to get your child to speak up!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Science fair project that examines how winter storms form and the relationship between temperature, moisture and snow.

Use a microscope in this experiment to learn about different kinds of "good bacteria" that turn milk into yogurt!

This science fair project idea explores what it takes to create a biosphere, or a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Use a dichotomous key to identify plants or animals.

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

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Play a sing-a-long Bingo game with your kindergartener's favorite songs to help her build her concentration and memory skills while she has fun!