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Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Here's how you and your teen can stage your own formal debateâbeyond arguing why chores are unethical! Formal debates improve teens' critical thinking skills.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Start thinking about how the internet works by assembling an Ethernet cable of your own!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.

Research responsibilities of physicists, and common thinking patterns. Devise a questionnaire that measures career aptitude in physics.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Monitor the impact learning how to play chess has an academic performance. Divide subjects into two groups compare GPA

Here's a fun activity to reinforce the physics concept of stored energy for your middle schooler.

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Kids learn how fiber optics work with a dramatic total internal reflection experiment using a fish tank, water, and a laser pointer.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.

Explore how you can achieve magnetic levitation with the Meissner Effect! This cool science project explains formation and applications of a superconductor.

This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!