Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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".

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.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

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

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

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

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.

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

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

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

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