4th - 7th Grade Activities : Page 7

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

Have you ever noticed the ridges on a dog's nose? In this project, we take several dogs' nose prints and discover just how unique they are!

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

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

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Mummy chic or rag-tag retro? Catch the oldest trend in bandaged jewelry!

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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.

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

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

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

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!

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Watch your fifth grader hone his basic kitchen and measuring skills as he helps you whip up a batch of this soothing, savory soup.

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.