5th Grade Activities : Page 14

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

The purpose of this science fair project is to study the properties of sugar and examine individual preferences for sugar and other sweeteners.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the basic principles of air pressure using simple materials like a balloon, straw and string.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Cook Halloween pasta on All Hallows' Eve. This green pasta with toothy almonds is a super scary and tasty dinner for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

In this science fair project, students create their own miniature salt flats at home.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

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

Let these cute shamrock earrings bring the luck of the Irish to your fifth grader's ears!

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

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.

This pet blanket is a perfect sewing project for your little gifter with a furry friend. Make a pet blanket with your child this holiday season.

Is your child an amateur origami master? Reach the next stage of paper folding genius with this origami heart!

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

Encourage your child to explore color and its mood-altering effects by creating his own self portrait using only warm or cool colors.

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Protozoa and ciliate and amoeba, oh my! The objective of this science fair project is for students to use a microscope and identify microscopic life.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

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!

It's not always bad to think negatively -- step into the creative and unique world of negative space drawing!