3rd Grade Activities : Page 6

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Learn how to tell time by the sun with this cool science fair project idea that tracks how the accuracy of a sundial changes over time.

How does a flashlight work? Kids will make a complete circuit and explore how voltage contributes to brightness with this science fair project idea.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

In this enlightening transpiration experiment, kids will explore how the loss of water from plants through transpiration contributes to the water cycle.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

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!

This snowflake garland will bring some winter wonder to your house. Make a sparkling snowflake garland with your child this winter.

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.

Help your child build emotional awareness by creating a wheel full of pictures that make them feel a certain emotion.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

This science fair project idea investigates the hardness property of minerals.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

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!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

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