Craft like the Colombians did in ancient times and make these line drawings out of twine, rope, or yarn.

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Create a dramatic, elegant line drawing of a pumpkin in this white-on-black Halloween art project. 

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

In this science experiment, do tensile strength test on fishing line, a strand of hair, a rubber band, and any other materials you're curious about!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

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

Learn how to make a ping pong ball anemometerâa device used to measure wind speedâin this free science fair project idea.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Use playing cards to learn about temperature as well as positive and negative integers in this fourth grade math game.