Activities : Page 33

This cool physics demo illustrates the simple harmonic motion of a pendulum while teaching kids the important concepts of potential and kinetic energy.

This fun project will showcase spring's freshest flowers and help your child contribute to the Passover Seder.

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

Have you ever seen fruit decay? Find out if a fruit will rot faster if you open it versus leaving it untouched!

Create a DIY Electromagnet! Using a 9v battery to create an electrical field around a nail, students explore electromagnetism in this cool science project idea.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

The objective of this science fair project is to test the growth rate of a plan in a crystal medium in comparison to traditional soil.

These easy-to-make felt friends are created by sewing two pieces of felt together with yarn and make great gifts for holidays such as Easter.

Got a jousting knight at home? Try this project and help him make his very own shield.

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

In this science fair project, students create their own miniature salt flats at home.

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

Use an Elihu Thomson apparatus, also known as a ring launcher, to learn about electromagnetism concepts and the properties of various metals.

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.