High School Activities
Browse through our high school activities, or use the selector below to pick a subject. You'll find many high school activities to keep your child learning on the fly, all year long. From fun holiday activities to subject specific ones there are many high school activities to choose from.
Be a Reporter for the Day
Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.
Make an African Mask
Have your high schooler make a beautiful African mask of her very own to help reinforce important spatial skills and compositional comprehension. This is a fun project even for those kids who don't consider themselves to be artistically inclined.
Design a Road to College Board Game
Want to help your teen start thinking about his options without the shrugs and vacant stares? Make thinking about college fun by working with your teen to design and plan a Road to College board game!
Make Baking Soda Toothpaste
Looking to get away from all the chemicals in store bought toothpaste? There's no need to head out to the health food store: it's easy to make eco-friendly, chemical-free toothpaste at home.
Turn an Old Book into a Memory Box
Just like movie paintings that move to reveal secret safes, you can make a book that opens to reveal a secret compartment perfect for hiding special things.
Snake Eyes on the SAT
Dice are a great way to teach students about probability. The different combinations they offer are the perfect grounds for many SAT questions.
Audubon Adventure: Record the Natural World
This art project will have your child outdoors to creating naturalist drawings and paintings.
Living Room Letterpress
This activity combines learning about traditional printing techniques with a DIY guide for building a small tabletop press and creating linoleum cuts. Your teen will discover how a relatively simple construction project can be used to create gorgeous, unique art prints.
CSI Science: Ink Investigation
Paper chromatography is a technique that can be used in forensic science to identify different inks. You and your teen can see how chromatography works by conducting the following activity!
Write Oulipo N+7
Meant to be fun and inspiring, N+7 and Oulipo methods challenge writers to recycle writing, use new language and it enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.
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