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Make Your Own Soap
Make Your Own Soap
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Make Your Own Soap
Third Grade
Physical Science
Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.
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Make a Better Paper Airplane
Make a Better Paper Airplane
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Make a Better Paper Airplane
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.
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Study Game: Planets!
Study Game: Planets!
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Study Game: Planets!
Fifth Grade
Measurement
All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.
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Potato Battery
Potato Battery
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Potato Battery
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock.
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How Strong are a Bird's Bones?
How Strong are a Bird's Bones?
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How Strong are a Bird's Bones?
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.
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Marble Physics
Marble Physics
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Marble Physics
First Grade
Physical Science
Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!
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Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!
Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!
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Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!
Fifth Grade
Measurement
Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!
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Ink Art
Ink Art
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Ink Art
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.
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Make a Fistful of Slime!
Make a Fistful of Slime!
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Make a Fistful of Slime!
First Grade
Physical Science
Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.
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Break the Tension: A Water Experiment
Break the Tension: A Water Experiment
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Break the Tension: A Water Experiment
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.
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Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
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Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.
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Create a Collection That Rocks!
Create a Collection That Rocks!
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Create a Collection That Rocks!
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.
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Test for Acids or Bases Using...Flowers!
Test for Acids or Bases Using...Flowers!
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Test for Acids or Bases Using...Flowers!
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.
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Make an Electrical Zapper
Make an Electrical Zapper
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Make an Electrical Zapper
Fifth Grade
Measurement
Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!
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Homemade Frozen Yogurt
Homemade Frozen Yogurt
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Homemade Frozen Yogurt
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!
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How to Make a Cartesian Diver
How to Make a Cartesian Diver
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How to Make a Cartesian Diver
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.
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Make a Temperature Tracker
Make a Temperature Tracker
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Make a Temperature Tracker
Fifth Grade
Geometry
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!
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Send Water Uphill!
Send Water Uphill!
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Send Water Uphill!
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!
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The Red Cabbage Acid Test
The Red Cabbage Acid Test
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The Red Cabbage Acid Test
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!
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Under Pressure
Under Pressure
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Under Pressure
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.
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Make Marbleized Paper!
Make Marbleized Paper!
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Make Marbleized Paper!
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
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.
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Adding Colors: An Optical Experiment
Adding Colors: An Optical Experiment
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Adding Colors: An Optical Experiment
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.
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Make Your Own Butter!
Make Your Own Butter!
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Make Your Own Butter!
Second Grade
Physical Science
Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.
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Molecule Madness: A Water Experiment
Molecule Madness: A Water Experiment
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Molecule Madness: A Water Experiment
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!
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Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction
Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction
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Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction
Fifth Grade
Measurement
This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!
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Make Your Own Electricity
Make Your Own Electricity
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Make Your Own Electricity
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!
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Egg in a Bottle
Egg in a Bottle
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Egg in a Bottle
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!
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Playground Physics
Playground Physics
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Playground Physics
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
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.
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Bake a Chemistry Cake
Bake a Chemistry Cake
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Bake a Chemistry Cake
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.
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Make Frost on the Window!
Make Frost on the Window!
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Make Frost on the Window!
Fifth Grade
Physical Science
Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.
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5th Grade Physical Science Activities

You’ll inspire the next generation of scientists with exciting fifth grade physical science activities like teaching students how to make foam or their very own bouncy ball. The next great naturalists may emerge under your stewardship by encouraging students to go out on backyard botany hunts, craft DIY bird feeders, take care of insectivorous terrariums, or engage in other fun fifth grade nature activities.
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