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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.”

Here are three activities you can do at home and around town to bring algebra into your daily lives.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

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.

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

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

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

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Here's a game your child is sure to love playing with her friends: French Cricket. Just grab a baseball bat and a tennis ball, and you're set.

This project examines what types of objects burn and which burn faster and cleaner.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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.

Check out this activity that has your kid create her own Cubist montage. Soon your kid will be well on her way to understanding the vibrant art of Cubism!

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.