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

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

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!

This activity will help your child tackle those tricky fraction word problems by way of a hands-on method.

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?

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Have a young architect or designer on your hands? Here's an easy activity for him to learn the basics of landscape and architecture while having fun!

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.