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In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Here's a brain-challenging treasure hunt for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

Encourage the brain-body connection in your child with movement games. This activity will decide who’s got the better moves, throughout the ages of music!

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

This zombie cake will give your Halloween enthusiast an excuse to lurch and limp around the kitchen. Share this zombie cake with friends and the undead.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

In this cool science fair project idea, kids conduct the ruler drop test on volunteers to determine whether reaction time can be improved with practice.

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

In this activity, your child will watch a video about empathy and practice speaking to someone with empathy. They will also discuss how empathy supports living in a community with others.

Let your fifth grader use his wits to challenge friends to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes!

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Staying close to home doesn't mean you can't get moving! Use this fun challenge activity to encourage your child to move their body in new ways while testing their endurance!

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

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

Make a backbone model to explore human anatomy and life science.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!