4th Grade Physical Science Resources : Page 2

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

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

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 creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

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

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

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

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

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

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

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

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

Wondering how we know that air is there? Here's a quick and easy experiment that proves that air may be thin, but it's not too wimpy to block your shot!

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.

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.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

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

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

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

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!

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.