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This project investigates whether chewing gum can help a majority of people with focus and concentration.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

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

Get your child excited for the seemingly stuffier side of these chilly months with a mock debate.

Science fair project that determines the effect of concentrated mental effort on physical performance levels.

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

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?

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

Test of the effect of exercise on rote memory. Prepare a single list of 40 randomly chosen words. Have volunteers recall as many words as possible.

Learn the chemistry and physics of the brain, how our nervous system work. Demonstrate that the brain is an electrical and chemical machine.

Bring history to life by helping your child create her own cartouche like the Egyptians did thousands of years ago.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

The objective of this sociologically-inclined experiment is to evaluate whether kids' toy preferences are hardwired or develop as they grow.

Learn more about consumer preferences, product availability and pricing. Search ebay listings typing keywords of your choice. Interpret statistical analysis

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Study the effect of music on blood pressure. Compare blood pressure readings before and after the listening session. Analyze results, write a detailed report.

Celebrate Constitution Day by learning the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution!

Research camouflage products and techniques, test quality by timing volunteers. Calculate the average length of time to recognize the subject.

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

This science fair project idea studies the differences in gender perception between people.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Study the effect of music on random rote memory. Examine the practical application of music in learning and education.

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

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.

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

This project will explore whether people are emotionally susceptible to suggestions of both humor and sorrow.

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.

Here's how teens can produce an audio guide of an exhibit, field trip, or ballgame, confess their thoughts in an audio diary or record a letter to a friend.