Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Invite children to create a Fourth of July centerpiece with this simple craft activity!

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

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

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

Explore history and prepare for backyard battle with this samurai helmet craft.

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

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.