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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

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

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

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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

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".

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

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

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

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

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

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!