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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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

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

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.