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Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Turn your child's learning about ancient civilizations into a swashbuckling adventure by having her make an ancient treasure map!

Teenagers across the country are getting involved in the issues they care about, and your child shouldn't be the exception to the rule.

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Bring history to life by helping your child create her own cartouche like the Egyptians did thousands of years ago.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

This science fair project idea determines whether volunteers remember more information presented orally or visually or kinesthetically.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

This social science experiment endeavors to determine whether certain types of animals provide greater physical and mental health benefits to their owners.

This science project investigates the influence of different genres of movies on appetite.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

The Declaration of Independence set forth inspiring ideals of liberty. If your kid had the chance today, would she sign the Declaration?

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.