Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Science fair project that examines what causes thunder and why a thunderclap sounds so loud. How is lightening related to the creation of sound waves?

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Learn how to make onigiri, a popular Japanese snack.

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

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

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.