Elementary School Social Studies Activities : Page 4

Whether your child is celebrating a great American holiday or simply feeling patriotic, this american flag craft is sure to please your little artist.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

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

Celebrate Ramadan by creating a crescent moon and star...out of stars! This craft is the perfect way to introduce your child to an important national symbol.

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

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.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Show your patriotism on the next great American holiday by making a shooting star spangled banner that's reminiscent of the American flag.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

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.

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.