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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.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

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.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Check out this sweet recipe idea perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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