4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 5

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

Check out this cool science fair project on identifying rocks and minerals for kids.

How greasy are your potato chips? Students will use a reliable method to quantify greasiness and compare different brands in this great science fair project.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

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.

Find out whether packaged seeds actually do expire in this new science fair project idea.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

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.

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

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

What are the effects of colored light on plant growth? Explore plant behavior in this cool botany science fair project and learn about phototropism!

This science fair project idea investigates how color affects temperature.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Kids will love making sugar crystals in this sugar crystal science fair project which teaches important chemistry concepts like saturation and solubility.

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.