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In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.

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

Test the effects of left and right handedness on writing speed and penmanship. Volunteers hand-copy the same paragraph of text, which samples look neater?

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here is a cool and easy science project to determine the rate of chlorophyll breaks down and how it affects the color change of grass from green to yellow.

In this science experiment, do tensile strength test on fishing line, a strand of hair, a rubber band, and any other materials you're curious about!

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Observe corn seed germination to learn about dicots and monocots and how plants grow from seeds to seedlings to full-grown plants!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Does your child know that salt water conducts electricity? This simple experiment will show how salt water acts as a conductor to electrical currents.

This project compares the strength of one, two, and three-ply toilet paper.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Science fair project that examines the effects of soap on the surface tension of water. How does soap affect the surface tension of water?

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Science fair project that determines which types of clouds are best at blocking harmful UV radiation.

A cool physics science fair project idea for 7th grade exploring the application of distance, velocity, and time equations.

Even for expert writers, this part of the college application process can be tough. Here's writing activity that will get your teen ready to tackle the task!