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.

In this project, a mnemonic is used to test how it increases memory.

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.

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.

In this project, different childproof containers are tested to see how childproof they really are.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.