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Here are six fresh ideas to liven up your teen's study time, and involve the whole family at the same time!

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

How to make sure SAT test tricks touch home? Try this game for some card-slinging study fun!

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

Let your kid try his hand at engineering as he builds and tests two different structures made out of rolled newspaper. Which one is the strongest?

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Is your first grader a picky eater who judges her meal at a glance? Change her perception of food with the help of this tricky taste test.

Here's a quick, engaging and fun game you can play around the dinner table to review several different school subjects.

Want to help your teen ace the SAT? Here's a step-by-step guide to getting underway.

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

Show your kids the power of baking powder by conducting a simple experiment. Make four batches of cornbread, all identical except for one thing: baking powder!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

The SAT likes to replace numbers with letters. Here's a game that will show your teen that cracking the code is a lot easier than it looks.

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

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.