Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

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

This is a healthy dish that'll bring color to any meal but simple enough that kids of all ages can take the lead in making this delicious Korean dish.

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

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.

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

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.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

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

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.

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

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.

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.

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.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

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

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.