4th - 6th Grade Physical Science Resources : Page 4

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

Discover whether different amounts of water added into a wine glass will produce a different pitch when their fingers are rubbed along the rim.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.