Fifth Grade History Activities

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

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

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.