In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Measure the effectiveness of detergent containing a UV-absorbing compound in blocking UV-A radiation. Use black light and UV detecting beads.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!