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Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

In this activity, your second grader will design her very own heart map to show what she's really made of.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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

Turn your child's learning about ancient civilizations into a swashbuckling adventure by having her make an ancient treasure map!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Check out this fun and easy science fair project idea on germination of a seed and learn to identify exterior and interior parts of a bean seed.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

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.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Bring the crisscrossing lines of highways and the sprawling webs of metropolitan cities to your dinner table!

Show your high schooler how to map out his life's intentions by creating a Sankofa, a symbol that will remind him that his choices determine his course.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Here's a social studies activity to help your middle-school or high-school teenager better understand how contour maps work using only the back of her hand.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!