3rd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 11

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

Focus on tasty savory dishes instead of sweet treats this Valentine's Day: make Caprese salad with heart-shaped mozzarella.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Demonstrate the properties of pressure and surface tension to explain how water can stay inside an upside down glass using cardboard.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!