Fourth Grade Science Activities and Experiments

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Your child will be hooked on chemistry after she builds a model volcano by combining an acid and an alkaline substance.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

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

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

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

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

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

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

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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

Here's a fun activity that will introduce your fourth grader to the concept of frictionless motion by constructing a hovercraft.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!