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Fifth Grade Physical Science Activities

You’ll inspire the next generation of scientists with exciting fifth grade physical science activities like teaching students how to make foam or their very own bouncy ball. The next great naturalists may emerge under your stewardship by encouraging students to go out on backyard botany hunts, craft DIY bird feeders, take care of insectivorous terrariums, or engage in other fun fifth grade nature activities.

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Send Water Uphill!

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!

Try Water Science Trickery!

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.

Compare Cotton and Nylon Absorbency

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

Keep a Candle Burning Underwater!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Create a Collection That Rocks!

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. Show your sixth grader how!

Test for Acids or Bases Using...Flowers!

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

Ready, Aim, Marshmallows!

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

How Strong are a Bird's Bones?

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

A simple science experiment exploring the physics of water pressure that's been amazing people since Medieval times.

How to Make a Cartesian Diver

Experiment with buoyancy to learn how a submarine rises and sinks in this classic science experiment.

Make Marbleized Paper!

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.

Homemade Frozen Yogurt

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

How to Make a Bouncy Ball

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

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Molecule Madness: A Water Experiment

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Break the Tension: A Water Experiment

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

Bake a Chemistry Cake

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.

Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!

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

The Red Cabbage Acid Test

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

Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction

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

Make Your Own Electricity

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

Study Game: Planets!

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.

Playground Physics

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.

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