Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

If your fifth grader has a voracious appetite for reading, she'll be surprised to see many books she has devoured. Show her how to make a "100 Books" chart!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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.

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

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 demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

In this Bernoulli's Principle experiment, you'll learn how an increase in the speed of a fluid, like air, decreases pressure.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.