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Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Discover the force of water! This article provides step-by-step instructions for creating your own science experiment.

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

Plants help keep a house cool! This article includes step-by-step instructions for completing this fun and interesting science experiment.

Encourage your child to get involved in the community and sharpen her writing skills by penning an editorial for the local paper in this high school activity.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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

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?

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

Design and build a scale model representing living tree architecture. Then build a full-size version using one or more lives trees, and test your creation.

This science fair project idea determines whether the diet and taste preferences of humans relate to their personality.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

This science project challenges high school students to study the linguistic evolution of text messaging.

Time to look at our faces! Are they symmetrical or asymmetrical? Find out in this science fair project idea.

Nothing says Father's Day like this pancake buffet.

This science fair project idea provides evidence that air is everywhere and takes up space.

Let your fifth grader craft a gleaming green shamrock pin for himself or a friend this St. Patrick's Day!

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

Children will learn about food waste and conservation, create a poster that lets others know about the importance of food conservation, and make a plan to waste less food and consume with mindfulness.

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

Test for a correlation between perceived color and heart rate. Using a stethoscope and stop watch, measure the heart rate (beats per minute) of volunteers.