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

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

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