Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

This experiment evaluates if people of a specific gender or age more likely have an elevated number of taste buds, allowing them to taste what others cannot.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Using only the elements in your backyard, make paintbrushes with your child and create truly homemade works of art.

This science fair project challenges students to research vortices occurring in nature and then create their own vortex.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

This low-prep party game is a perfect for entertaining all-too-easily-bored teens, and an easy way to lighten the mood during a group study session.

Romantic idioms are colorful and sometimes confusing phrases about love. Make a book of romantic idioms with this activity.

Make a shiny decorative Menorah using an egg carton and light bulbs.

Help your teen delve into the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; he'll come up with catchy slogans to advertise them in a pretend travel brochure.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

This school bus is easy to make, and all you need are some common household items.

Total alkalinity and pH personal care products are controlled to prevent skin irritation. Learn more about basic and acidic substances in this science project.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

In this cool psychology experiment, study how companies air commercials to strategically advertise to viewers who will buy their products.

This science fair project idea highlights decomposition rates by comparing how long it takes an item to decompose in a compost pile vs. a landfill.

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

Science fair project that tests the effects of diluted soap on the size of bubbles blown from the solution. Will dilution cause smaller bubbles?

Did you know that August is American Artist Month? Your child can explore the art of photography by using a digital camera to capture the landscape around her.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.