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

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Learn about the effect of artificial light on plant growth versus natural sunlight and delve into some biology and botany concepts in this science project.

What are the effects of colored light on plant growth? Explore plant behavior in this cool botany science fair project and learn about phototropism!

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

Dream big with a homemade dream journal, a great writing exercise for elementary-age kids.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Get inspired by nature and use recycled materials to create unforgettable pencil holders in time for the back to school season.

Try turning the evening ritual of asking about your kid's school day into a challenging game that consists of twenty questions.

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

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

Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

This project determines the age of a tree using a growth factor chart instead of cutting the tree down to count the rings in its base.

In this science fair project, students examine under what conditions individual plants release seeds and how far the seeds are released.

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.

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

Part food craft, part witchcraft, this is a yummy delight your middle schooler will want to make à and eat!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.