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

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

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!

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

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.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

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

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

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

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

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

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock.

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.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Here is a nifty science experiment using Epsom salts to make "frost" appear on a piece of glass.

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

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!