Fourth Grade Earth & Space Science Activities

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.