4th - 8th Grade Activities : Page 7

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

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

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

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

Discover that the absorbency of fabrics depend largely on the shape and structure of the individual fibers that make up the fabric.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

This science fair project idea explores which fruit molds the fastest.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

Explore the craters, maria, and highlands on the surface of the Moon! In this fun science project you'll create a 3-D model of the moon using paper mache.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

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

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Boost your child's listening, verbal and teamwork skills with this unique trust game in which one player guides another through a maze using only words.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

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

Celebrate Earth Day by making a poster that encourages people not to litter.