This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

You can try this simple activity with your third grader to get him thinking about the real world math you use everyday.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

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

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.

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

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Your kindergartener will learn basic math concepts and create a beautiful keepsake with this African flag reference book.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

In this classic Ivory soap experiment, kids learn what happens to different types of soap in the microwave, and why!

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

This easy aerodynamics activity is a simple way to introduce kids to the scientific method.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

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.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.