For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

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

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Is cleaning with lemon effective? Get ready to give this science project some elbow grease and find out if acidic lemons can be used as a cleaning agent.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.