Social Studies Activities : Page 3

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

Do dogs understand English? Kids will find out with one of our favorite dog science fair projects that tests how dogs process human language and other cues.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

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.

Every year at the Passover Seder, the Ten Plagues are mentioned as part of the ritual. Have your kid draw the plagues to help him remember their importance.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

Make sunomono, a simple Japanese cucumber vinegar salad, and kid-friendly chopsticks in this fun kindergarten activity.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether there are gender differences when boys and girls view optical illusions.

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

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

This science fair project idea investigates the relationship between memory and age.

In this activity you and your child will learn about the African Americans that changed history in a fun quiz format.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.