4th Grade Science Activities
Browse through our fourth grade science activities. We have many 4th grade science activities to keep your fourth grader learning on the fly, all year long. From recreating the solar system to making a battery, you'll find our collection of fourth grade science activities below.
Black History Month Fun: Become an Inventor!
In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own!
Set-Up a Solar System of Kids
Help your fourth grader envision the solar system and its immense size by creating a small scale map of the solar system--using human planets! This kinesthetic learning activity will help your child understand the solar system.
How Long is Your Shadow on the Shortest Day?
Many people think of the first day of spring or the first day of school as a new beginning, but the winter solstice is a new beginning too. Explore the peak of winter!
Make a Bendable Spinal Column Model
Has your child ever thought about how his spine works, and why it bends? This assembling activity resulting in a spinal model will help him understand and be grateful for the vital functions performed by his vertebral column.
Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste
Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist! Your child will delight in making her own indoor garden by growing fruits and vegetables out of discarded plant sections that would have otherwise been thrown away.
Create a Science Lab In Your Home!
Kids are natural scientists. Any scientist, they'll agree, should have her own laboratory! This space will give your child a nice place to work and will give you an easy place to store her experiments and activities.
Halloween Decorations: Make Ghouly Hands!
Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Here's science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from some simple chemistry.
The Science of Sun: Transference
This science-inspired activity encourages your child to get outdoors and explore the possibilities of the sun. You and your child will create unique photograph-style prints and learn how the sun's light can transfer images from objects to paper.
Electric Science: Make a Battery!
Try this chemistry experiment with your fourth grader and get some "shocking" results!
Soda Pop "Fireworks"
This Fourth of July, explore fourth grade science with your child and make some holiday fireworks right in your own back yard!
