To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

In this lesson, your child will watch a video on restorative justice, and together you will come up with ways your family can use restorative justice at home.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

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.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.