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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.

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.”

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project! 

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

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

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Help your student memorize the vocabulary needed to excel in geometry. This fun Tic-Tac-Toe game focuses on terms used when working with circles.

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

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

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

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.

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