Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Attention, Anglophiles! Get your fill of artsy crafts and historical fun with this jewelry project.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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

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

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

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

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

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

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

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