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Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Students identify variables that affect the duration of high school romances and analyze data to predict the success or failure of ongoing relationships.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the cleanliness of salad preparation techniques.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

Science fair project that examines the relationship between fluid flow rate, pressure, and resistance.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Have you ever noticed the way a dropped stone makes a fun pattern in a pond or lake? What's the science behind these splashy occurrences?

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

Compare fractions in this two-player math game. The objective of the games is to work together to determine who has created the largest fraction.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Science fair project which compares the rate of temperature change and the maximum temperature as a result of the angle of light radiation.

This middle school project examines the strength of horizontal versus vertical pointing eggshells.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

In this version of the classic card game, students will gain an understanding of equivalents and may not even realize it's a math review!

Soil and energy don't go together, right? That would be as bizarre as a pairing of peanut butter and marshmallows! Well, actually...

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.