4th and 5th Grade Social Studies Science Projects

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

This science fair project idea explores whether there is a connection to the color a person wears and the way their emotional state is perceived by others.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

In this fun experiment, learn about brand awareness and the influence of media on children by testing logo recognition in different age groups.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.