Social Studies Activities : Page 8

For Filipino families, parols (stars) are the ultimate holiday decorations! Here's how to make your own.

Batik is a fabric dying technique usually done with hot wax. This flour-and-water method is kid-safe and easy, and it creates beautiful batik designs.

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore short and long term memory and whether there is gender differences in memory.

Help your teen delve into the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; he'll come up with catchy slogans to advertise them in a pretend travel brochure.

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

Encourage your child's interest in other cultures by helping him create his own colorful prayer flag inscribed with a special message for the world.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

To channel your child's revolutionary ambitions, introduce her to the political process, and encourage her to campaign for her cause!

Play Exquisite Corpse with your high schooler to give her a taste of French Surrealism while working collaboratively to create unique and funky pieces of art!

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

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

Sometimes a sandwich is just ho hum boring. Help your kid make lunch fun by threading her favorite ingredients on a skewer for a quick and easy sandwich kabob.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Help middle schoolers use maps, math, and history for some Fourth of July fun.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

This research project teaches students about synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes sensory overlap.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.