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This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

New Year's Eve hats let you wear your celebratory spirit on your head. Make New Year's Eve hats with year child to ring in the New Year in style.

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Celebrate Veterans Day with your child by helping them create and send a well-deserving veteran a "thank you" card via the U.S. Veteran's Affairs Department.

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

This project makes learning the difference between warm and cool colors easy and fun. And it's a great intro to complimentary colors - great for pop art!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Help your kindergartener's handwriting, hand strength and coordination by making a "stress ball" from this homemade, nontoxic "silly squeezy putty."

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.