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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.

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

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.

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.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

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

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Help your child appreciate grandparents, history, and societal changes while making a poster handmade, heartfelt grandparent's day craft.

Whether your child is celebrating a great American holiday or simply feeling patriotic, this american flag craft is sure to please your little artist.

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

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

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

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