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

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

This project uses science and art to help students learn and teach others about Earth's endangered and extinct species.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

Put a flavorful twist on a classic dish, and make tortilla lasagna! All your favorite ingredients from traditional Mexican food will go into this creation.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

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!

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

Soil is made up of different layers. How far down do you need to dig to find the soil horizon, or the place where bits of leaves and branches become soil?

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

This science fair project explains the process of how the lungs expand and contract with the help of the diaphragm.

Want a sugar-sculpted house, just like Hansel and Gretel found? Make a miniature version in this sweet geometry activity.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

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

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

Spice up a traditional watercolor painting project with magazine cutout letters that spell out your favorite poem.

Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!