Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

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

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 Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

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

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

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

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

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.

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.

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.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

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

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

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

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

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

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

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

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

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

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

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

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