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This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

This science fair project idea models industrial oil spills and determines if they have an impact on wildlife living beneath the surface of the water.

This science fair project idea measures physical dexterity as a function of temperature.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

This science fair project idea determines if material and tensile strength of different types of skateboard wheels affects the velocity of the skateboarder.

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

Want a graduation memento that you can actually use? Create a signature graduation keepsake plate that is easy to make, inexpensive, and useful!

This science fair project idea determines exactly how much of an effect road grade has upon a cyclistâs speed.

The elegance of a glitter vase will rival the flowers inside it! Help your child craft this artsy gift as a special gift for a loved one.

This science fair project idea quantifies the effect of weather- in this case temperature and humidity- on musical instruments.

The objective of this science project is to determine whether a sweet tooth is most likely an inherited trait or a learned behavior.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Enlisting the cooperation of your teenager to help prepare your household for an emergency is the perfect way to get set, fast.

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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.

This science fair project idea explores discover whether there are any patterns or trends in the memories between different genders.

Construct a card castle fit for a king! Treat your royal "face" cards (the kings, queens, and jacks) to the cool castle they deserve.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

This science fair project idea explores if people with cool skin tones prefer cool colors and people with warm skin tones prefer warm colors.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.