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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.

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.

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

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Build a decorated box and fill it with research that can help you get to your dream location someday!

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

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.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".