Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

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!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Inspired by colorful African drums and crafted from recyclable materials, these pencil holders will make a bold and charming addition to any desk set.

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

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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.

This science activity will help your student explore the changes that occur to transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

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 project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This biodiversity project examines the biodiversity in your own backyard.

Science fair project that examines how winter storms form and the relationship between temperature, moisture and snow.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

Edible holiday gifts are perfect for the foodie in your life. Learn how to make edible holiday gifts with this activity and tutorial.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!