Social Studies Activities : Page 4

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

Discover whether the color of text correlates with ease and speed of reading.

Make your own architectural masterpiece with supplies from the pantry. Your temple may not be as impressive as the real thing, but it'll be twice as delicious!

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

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.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

This project examines the phenomenon of using a mirror to trick a person's brain into experiencing sensations in body parts not actually affected.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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

Your child can decorate her own set of Russian nesting dolls in this easy felt craft.

Test whether spot magnets can help improve the symptoms of an injury.

This science project has students study the idea of human beauty.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

Determine the effect of homework on academic performance. Collect grade info at the end of a semester, determine correlation between grades, amount of homework

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

Sultan Ahmed Mosque is often referred to as the Blue Mosque. In this activity, your kid will build his own Blue Mosque just in time for Ramadan!

This project will explore whether music influences physical endurance.

Help your middle school or high school child make informed decisions about managing his finances and saving wisely for his future.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

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

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.

This science fair project idea explores whether the color of surroundings affects human mood.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

Whether your child is celebrating a great American holiday or simply feeling patriotic, this american flag craft is sure to please your little artist.