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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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

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

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

The project determines which laundry detergent is best for cleaning clothes.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."