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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.

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

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.

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.

Let your aspiring poet use book titles to create a funky and visually-appealing masterpiece!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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

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

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.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Science fair project about work and energy which uses a simple mathematical formula to predict how far a jar will roll down an incline.

Kids make a paperclip perform an act of magnetic levitation and test how effective various materials are at magnetic shielding in this science fair project.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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

Science fair project which compares the rate of temperature change and the maximum temperature as a result of the angle of light radiation.

Say goodbye to lost bookmarks with the flower bookmark that knows how to hold on tight!

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

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.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

This fun science fair project idea helps students learn how acid rains are formed and explore how acid rain damages the environment.

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

Looking for a fun summer activity to capture all your vacation memories? Create a summer scrapbook with your child!

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!