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Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine the rate at which participants can respond to different patterns.

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.