5th Grade Activities : Page 5

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Will potatoes spud or sprout faster in dry, dark, or cold conditions? Find out in this science fair project idea!

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

This science fair project idea determines what household items are good conductors of electricity.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

This science fair project idea explores the different properties of matter.

Let your fifth grader use his wits to challenge friends to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes!

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This science fair project explains the process of how the lungs expand and contract with the help of the diaphragm.

Filling out forms can be a great learning experience for kids. Here's how to give your child some FORMal training.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

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

Grow borax crystals and get your child excited about Earth science with this crafty science experiment.

This science fair project focuses on the use of a conductivity device that will determine if a substance dissolved in water can or cannot conduct electricity.

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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 science fair project, we learn how air molecules move as a result of density, convection, and air currents.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Does electricity move better through thick wires or thin ones? kids will conduct this classic electricity experiment for this science fair project.

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

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

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.