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Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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.

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

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

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

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

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

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

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:

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

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.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

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

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Attention, Anglophiles! Get your fill of artsy crafts and historical fun with this jewelry project.