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Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate how yeast, a fungus, causes bread to rise.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Music is all around us. Bring some melody into your home with a hand-crafted door harp.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

In this activity, students will learn about the meaning and information on a police badge. Then they will be able to create their own badge with their own identification.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Bring the crisscrossing lines of highways and the sprawling webs of metropolitan cities to your dinner table!

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this activity, your child will learn about the benefits of yoga and will practice different yoga poses. Then, they will teach someone else three poses and explain how yoga can help us find calmness and ease.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

In this activity, your child will learn how slowing down and using mindfulness can help us be more aware of others' needs. They will also draw a picture of a time when they made a healthy and helpful choice.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.