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This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

Examine the effect of pressure on carbonation in soda.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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!

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

This science fair project compares the allelopathic affects of juglone, a chemical agent produced by the Black Walnut tree, on two plants.

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

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

What heats up fasterâwater or soil? 5th grade students test the specific heat of water against the specific heat of sand in this great science fair project.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

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

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Learn the basic structure of a DNA strand, which is the double helix, how genes form together, and the resemblance DNA has to a twisted ladder. Create a model.

This science fair project examines which fruits and/or vegetables will ripen prematurely when placed with ripe apples.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

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

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

examine how passive solar heating works, measure temperature in a parked car on a sunny day. ways to use passive solar heating as an alternative, energy

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

Demonstrate how static electricity can cause an object to move. It also examines just how an object affected by static electricity will move.