5th - 7th Grade Activities : Page 5

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

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

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

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

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

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

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

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Have you ever seen fruit decay? Find out if a fruit will rot faster if you open it versus leaving it untouched!

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Does electricity move better through thick wires or thin ones? kids will conduct this classic electricity experiment for this science fair project.

Examine whether distilled water, spring water, or regular tap water yield faster plant growth.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

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

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

This experiment investigates the relationship between the temperature of a candle and its burn rate.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

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