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Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.

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

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

This math game helps fourth graders improve their understanding of positive and negative integers in a fun way.

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.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

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.

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.