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

This project examines the phenomenon of using a mirror to trick a person's brain into experiencing sensations in body parts not actually affected.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Students identify variables that affect the duration of high school romances and analyze data to predict the success or failure of ongoing relationships.

Evaluate whether people can raise the temperature of their finger using the power of their thoughts.

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

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.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Here's a social studies activity to help your middle-school or high-school teenager better understand how contour maps work using only the back of her hand.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

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.

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

This science fair project idea addresses tempo, and whether faster or slower music works better as a study aid.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

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

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

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

This science fair project idea tests the efficiency of short term memory.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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.