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What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

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

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

How does distance affect the spreading of light? Kids see diffraction and the inverse square law of light in action with this great science fair project idea.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

In this science fair project, students will create a model of a shoreline, observe erosion and examine how jetties prevent erosion.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Here's a fun and simple activity to introduce your child to surface tension, and pull an awesome stunt in the process!

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.