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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.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Music is all around us. Bring some melody into your home with a hand-crafted door harp.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

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

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

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!

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

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

In this cool science fair project idea, kids conduct the ruler drop test on volunteers to determine whether reaction time can be improved with practice.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

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.