Showing Results for performance tasks

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!