In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Measure the effectiveness of detergent containing a UV-absorbing compound in blocking UV-A radiation. Use black light and UV detecting beads.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

The project determines which laundry detergent is best for cleaning clothes.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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.

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."