Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

If your fifth grader has a voracious appetite for reading, she'll be surprised to see many books she has devoured. Show her how to make a "100 Books" chart!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

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

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

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.

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

In this Bernoulli's Principle experiment, you'll learn how an increase in the speed of a fluid, like air, decreases pressure.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

This science fair project idea studies which brand of wintergreen candy produces the most sparks in the dark.

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

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.

Help the elephant bird come back to life with this awesome paper mache craft.

Make this paper mache gargoyle for a lesson in Medieval architecture and sculpture.

This colorful garland can be strung across a fireplace and remind you of your blessings well into the new year.

Learn how to make a ping pong ball anemometerâa device used to measure wind speedâin this free science fair project idea.

Science fair project that helps you better understand density by comparing the relative densities of cans of Coke and Diet Coke.

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.

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