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Kids learn how to manipulate additive and subtractive colors to send secret messages with red colored filters in this cool science fair project idea.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Use a simple toothbrush and a splatter painting technique to create this sparkling skyline work of art!

Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

It’s the season for falling leaves, fall colors, and corn! Use this easy activity to help your child make some amazing paintings. They can use their math skills to design patterns for cards, paper, presents and more!

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Use up your leftover hardboiled Easter eggs with our healthy, gourmet variations on an old classic: deviled eggs

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

You can try this simple activity with your third grader to get him thinking about the real world math you use everyday.

Cut out lots of geometric snowflakes and use them for creating colorful snowflake prints perfect for decorating any home this winter season!

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Don't toss out those old tortillas! Your child can use them to create her own tortilla chips in any flavor she can imagine.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

In this lesson, your child will watch a video on restorative justice, and together you will come up with ways your family can use restorative justice at home.