With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.
Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.
Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.
Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.
Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.
Work with teens to learn about family members' significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
This activity will help pairs or groups of teens explore a hands-on approach that lets them become both comic book writers and comic book artists.
Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members.
Work with a teen to create a wiki with everything people should know about the teen's top ten favorite songs—and your favorite songs as well! Then invite friends to add their favorite songs too.
This activity gives teens an opportunity to write reviews on the movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and books they love—and hate!
In this activity, you can discuss with teens how they can tell the "good" characters from the "bad" ones by watching for clues that the movie makers have left.
This activity will help teens create a professional resume that effectively presents their skills and talents to future employers.
This activity guides teens in reaching out to authors of books they love by composing personal letters or connecting to authors through their websites or blogs.
These activities will have children reading signs, logos, brand names, and other words all over their home and community.
Work together, create a bingo board that can be played while walking around town, going to the zoo or a museum, or traveling on a vacation.
In this activity, children go on a hunt for places where they can read and enjoy books: on a family road trip, at the pool, at the doctor's office.
In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.