Fourth Grade Activities

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a contraption that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake cookies or s'mores!

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

In this design thinking activity, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to find a solution that can inflate a balloon.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

In this activity, your child will write a poem recognizing and appreciating the beauty inherent in diversity.

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

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. 

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.