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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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

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

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

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

Build a decorated box and fill it with research that can help you get to your dream location someday!

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.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Check out this sweet recipe idea perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

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.

This science fair project idea explores whether there is a connection to the color a person wears and the way their emotional state is perceived by others.