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

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

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

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.

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.

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!