5th Grade Science Activities : Page 2

This science fair project idea creates a sedimentary rock and to investigate what takes place during the rock cycle.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Why do ants like sugar? Do ants like artificial sweeteners too? Kids find out with this great inquiry-based science fair project.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.

Kids will love making sugar crystals in this sugar crystal science fair project which teaches important chemistry concepts like saturation and solubility.

What are the effects of colored light on plant growth? Explore plant behavior in this cool botany science fair project and learn about phototropism!

This science fair project idea determines if the temperature of rubber effects how high it bounces.

Find out which type of sponge holds the most water.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

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

Check out this fun and easy science fair project idea on germination of a seed and learn to identify exterior and interior parts of a bean seed.

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

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.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Find out whether packaged seeds actually do expire in this new science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.