Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Here's a fun car game for you: Blind Distance. Blind Distance is a great way to bond with your child and teacher her about depth perception at the same time.

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

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

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

Check out this fun and easy 4th grade science fair project idea that tests how gravity induces positive and negative geotropism (gravitropism) in bean plants.

This easy-to-make perfume powder will keep your kid smelling fresh and clean. Got a birthday or special occasion coming up? It also makes a great gift!

This project compares the strength of one, two, and three-ply toilet paper.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Make a "hands-on" barbecue apron for Dad this Father's Day!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.