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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

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

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.

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

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

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.

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.

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!