5th Grade Physical Science Resources : Page 3

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

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

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!

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!

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

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!

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

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

In this science experiment, your child will test the strength of hollow structures in order to understand how strong bird bones really are.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

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.

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

Using an empty tennis ball can and a swimming pool, you will determine if it's possible to have a conversation under water.

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

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

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

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

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!