This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

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.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade 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.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

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

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

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

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