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

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

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.

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.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.