A great way to encourage your children to continue their schoolwork over summer vacation is by planning a scavenger hunt. The thrill of searching for particular items and working in teams will make this learning activity as fun as it is educational.

Many parents continue with schoolwork through the use of workbooks. While this is a fine way to maintain what they have learned in school, teaching children by using their environment will help to hold information in the brain longer.

“Research has shown that people remember things better when they learn them by doing,” states Susan Jindrich in her 1998 article, “How Do Children Develop?”