This science fair idea examines hydrogel superabsorbent polymer crystals. They can absorb 500 times their weight in water. Can they absorb other liquids too?

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore which other common animals besides scorpions glow under a UV Black light.

The Earth is always providing in so many ways! In this activity, children reflect on how the Earth gives and on their love for the Earth through discussion and letter writing.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

Learn about Rosh Hashanah and other Jewish holidays by planning and creating a Jewish holiday calendar.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

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

Help your kid organize her collection of earrings and other accessories with a fun embroidery craft!

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

How many ways can Christmas fun "add up"? Download this fourth grade math worksheet and find out!

The purpose of this science fair project is to study the properties of sugar and examine individual preferences for sugar and other sweeteners.

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

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

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

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

Try to pop other opponents balloons while trying to protect your own. This exciting game is sure to be a hit with the kids at your next party!

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Follow these easy instructions to make a working sundial with your kid! Find out what other cool things the Aztecs created in this activity.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Combat summer boredom with this easy and fun game. Race against each other to see who can fill their bucket the fastest using leaky cups!

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.