Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

In this activity, learners will discover how to make a basic water filtration system using common materials found around the house or outside.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

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.

Offer your child an interactive approach to understanding the different family roles and the ways in which she has impacted other members of the family.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Understanding what forgiveness is and why it is important for friendships is a critical life skill. In this home activity, your child will learn about forgiveness and write a forgiveness letter to someone.

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Understanding how good friends can have a positive effect on our lives is important in all stages of life! In this activity, children will write create a "Want Ad for a Friend" and will list all of the characteristics that are most important in a friend.

What's my number? Go ahead and guess! This logic game focuses on number sense that suits all ability levels, as players' questions can be simple or complex.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Encourage your third-grader to create a reverse glass painting. This will help him learn art concepts and improve his critical thinking skills.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

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.

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.