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Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

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

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

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

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.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

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.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

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:

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

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

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

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

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?