Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

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

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 activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

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.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

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

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

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

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

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.

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

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

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

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

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

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

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

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

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.

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.

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