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Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Celebrate spring -- and take care of a little spring cleaning -- with this creative craft that turns a single sock into an adorable rabbit.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Greeting cards are nice, but after they've been opened most cards soon end up in the trash. This year, make Dad a Father's Day card he'll treasure forever.

This science fair project idea provides evidence that air is everywhere and takes up space.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

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

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

This science fair project idea investigates if heat from direct sunlight is hotter than heat from reflected sunlight.

Boost your child's imagination and creativity by having her design her own deck of trading cards.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

This quick and easy pasta dish is loaded with sweet grape tomatoes and vitamin-packed red pepper pesto.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

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