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Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Music is all around us. Bring some melody into your home with a hand-crafted door harp.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community.

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

In this activity, your child will learn about the benefits of yoga and will practice different yoga poses. Then, they will teach someone else three poses and explain how yoga can help us find calmness and ease.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Have a young architect or designer on your hands? Here's an easy activity for him to learn the basics of landscape and architecture while having fun!

In this painting and drawing project, not only will stars shine in the evening sky over the skyscrapers, they will also create a waterfront reflection.

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

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.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

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.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.