This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

In this activity, your child will learn about the benefits of yoga and will practice different yoga poses. Then, they will teach someone else three poses and explain how yoga can help us find calmness and ease.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures.

This science fair project idea identifies clouds as a means of predicting the weather.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

In this social emotional learning activity, children will learn about forgiveness by watching a short video, listening to and learning "The Forgiveness Song," and reflecting on a time they practiced forgiveness.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

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

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.