Observe trends in the properties of writing materials over past 5000 years and extrapolate to future time. Prepare a table that compares writing material.

What is mulch? Kids will provide soil with a wet blanket of mulch and see if that helps keep drought-stricken soil damp.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

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

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

This experiment will explore the best way to create a perfect soft-boiled egg.

This high school activity uses dice to explore probability and prepare for SAT questions.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Here's an amazing recipe your kids are sure to gobble up, whether they're Jewish or not.

Here's a hands-on activity that helps your child understand the concept of "circumference."

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Capture the past with this photo mobile that turns old photo negative strips into hanging art!

Get in the Halloween spirit with these simple, silly bat decorations!

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Recognizing number patterns is an important ability on the SAT. Here's a game that teaches your student some of the most common sequences in mathematics.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

At your next Valentine's Day celebration, your fifth grader can show family and friends she loves them with some fresh, fruity drinks--made from scratch!

Get inspired by the summer skies for a delicious parfait that looks as good as it tastes!

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Young chefs can whip up this simple stir fry featuring tender strips of rib eye in a savory oyster sauce faster than you can order take out.