Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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

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.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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

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

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

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

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.

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.

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

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

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.

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

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

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.

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