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.

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

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

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.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

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

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.

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

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

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

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

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.