Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

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

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

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

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

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

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

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

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".

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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.

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

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.

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.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

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.

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

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

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

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

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

Invite children to create a Fourth of July centerpiece with this simple craft activity!

Attention, Anglophiles! Get your fill of artsy crafts and historical fun with this jewelry project.