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Want to see a great example of Newton's first law? Kids will learn about basic physics with this fun, ballistic experiment.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

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

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Improve critical thinking and logic skills as you compete to win in this fun, educational card game.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Frisbee golf is a game that incorporates the rules of golf with the fun of frisbee. Here's how to get started with your child:

Save the tiny tiles from the iconic board game and reuse them as a statement of scholarly style by making them into a crafty piece of jewelry.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Get inspired by the great outdoors and help your child make a quirky jewelry tree out of chopsticks!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

This prime number game is the perfect way to get to know prime numbers. Deal the cards and flip them over. When players a prime number they call out, "Prime!"

Use playing cards to learn about temperature as well as positive and negative integers in this fourth grade math game.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

It's food. It's Thanksgiving tradition. And guess what: Cranberry Sauce is also science! Try our simple recipe/experiment.

Want a sugar-sculpted house, just like Hansel and Gretel found? Make a miniature version in this sweet geometry activity.

Firefly flash tag is a great way to get your kids outdoors and running around during the dog days (or nights) of summer.