Understanding how good friends can have a positive effect on our lives is important in all stages of life! In this activity, children will write create a "Want Ad for a Friend" and will list all of the characteristics that are most important in a friend.

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Follow these easy instructions to make a working sundial with your kid! Find out what other cool things the Aztecs created in this activity.

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

In this activity, your child will practice mindfulness, choose one thing to do in which they can slow down, and reflect on this experience. You can even try slowing down together!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

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.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

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

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.