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

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

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

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

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

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

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".

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.