Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

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

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

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.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

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.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

This science fair project idea explores whether a plastic slinky works as well as a metal slinky when walking it down the stairs.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.