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

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

This study evaluates if electronic devices commonly found in most households emit radiation, and if they do, how much?

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Learn how to make onigiri, a popular Japanese snack.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

This math game helps fourth graders improve their understanding of positive and negative integers in a fun way.

This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Here's a sweet holiday recipe to make with your fifth grader: bake scrumptious sugar-dusted chocolate snowballs! Serve them at your next Christmas party.

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.

Give your daughter a neat project to hold the earrings or other small items that are taking over her dresser top.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.