Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

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.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

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

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.