Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

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

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

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

Attention, Anglophiles! Get your fill of artsy crafts and historical fun with this jewelry project.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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

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

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

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

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

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

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.

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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