3rd - 6th Grade Activities : Page 9

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

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.

Discover that the absorbency of fabrics depend largely on the shape and structure of the individual fibers that make up the fabric.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Instead of pulling out the usual Easter decorations, have your child transform cupcake liners into mini Easter baskets.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

This science fair project idea explores which fruit molds the fastest.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

Explore the craters, maria, and highlands on the surface of the Moon! In this fun science project you'll create a 3-D model of the moon using paper mache.

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

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!