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This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Use a dichotomous key to identify plants or animals.

Check out this fun science fair project idea to learn how alkaline batteries convert chemical energy to electrical energy?

Understanding what forgiveness is and why it is important for friendships is a critical life skill. In this home activity, your child will learn about forgiveness and write a forgiveness letter to someone.

Love is in the air, and there's no time like Valentine's Day for your high schooler to learn about the most romantic poetic form: the sonnet!

Future whistleblowers can learn about product safety standards with this exercise in writing and researching.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Kids learn about potential energy, and mechanical energy, and how to make power from water with one of our favorite renewable energy projects for kids.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

In this activity, your child will learn the benefits of positive thinking. They will write positive statements about themselves and create a gratitude board.

Determine which factors promote the greatest memory interference. Administer test, time how long it takes subjects to complete different tasks.

Help your middle schooler "map" her complicated day. It's a simple job with big payoffs that will last all through the year!

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

This three-part debate book is designed to hold two conflicting points of view on an issue that concerns you, along with possible solutions.

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

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

There's no better way to show mom you love her than with the tried and true breakfast in bed routine. Make whole wheat waffles along with a vase just for mom.

Slime mold is no longer classified as fungi! So what is it? In this cool science fair project, learn how to grow slime mold and explore its behavior.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

Science fair project that helps visualize how the human brain functions by constructing a model of a brain.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

This science fair project idea focuses on saturated and unsaturated lipids (fats and oils).