Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether drawing with the right side or the left side of your brain will produce a better picture.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Which battery lasts the longest? In this science fair project, kids will test popular brand name batteries like Duracell and Energizer against generic brands.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.