3rd - 8th Grade Activities : Page 5

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

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

In this fun science project, learn about what happens to cut fruit and experiment with how to stop apples from turning brown.

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

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

What's the relationship between temperature, air humidity and static electricity? Kids will find out with this free static electricity science fair project.

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

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

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Do you love to make Jell-O? Find out in this science fair project idea if it is possible to make Jell-O with just warm water.

Grow borax crystals and get your child excited about Earth science with this crafty science experiment.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!