Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

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

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

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

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

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

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

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

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.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

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

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

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

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!