Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Determine the effect of homework on academic performance. Collect grade info at the end of a semester, determine correlation between grades, amount of homework

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

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Examine how a battery can be made from everyday materials.

see whether all liquids evaporate at the same rate. In other words, does water evaporate at the same rate as juice?

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

This folk art painting lets kids develop watercolor and painting techniques with scenes of everyday life.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

In this science fair project, students investigate the applicability of Benford's Law to many sets of everyday data.

The goal of this science fair project is to assess the acidity levels of common food and household products using pH test strips.

This science project has students collect wood samples and invent new uses for different types of wood based on its properties.

Here's an investigative activity in which your child will discover real-world names and uses for sugar and find out how it is hidden in many different foods.

Introduce your kindergartener to some art history by showing him how to create an everyday object print, Andy Warhol-style.

Does your preschooler like cereal? Explore numbers with everyday objects and food with this fun counting activity.

Found poetry is a great exercise for kids to practice seeing the beauty and humor in ordinary, everyday language.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

This homemade snare drum made with everyday household items gets its authentic rattle sound from paper clips and tin.

The everyday American scenes painted by Edward Hopper provide a great opportunity for your middle schooler to narrate and engage in storytelling.

In this science fair experiment, middle school students evaluate whether tone of voice can influence our ability to remember a list of everyday objects.