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What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

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

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 science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

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

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

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.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

In this fun experiment, learn about brand awareness and the influence of media on children by testing logo recognition in different age groups.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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

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

This science fair project idea explores whether there is a connection to the color a person wears and the way their emotional state is perceived by others.

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

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

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

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

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

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

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

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.

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

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

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