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

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

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

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

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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

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.

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

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

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

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

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

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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.

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

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

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

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