Middle School Activities

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

Have you or your child ever heard that nursery rhyme and wondered just what curds and whey are anyway? Do this simple experiment together to find out!

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

Invite your middle schooler to bungee jump ... with eggs! This experiment will demonstrate Newton's laws of physics in an entertaining way.

This fun card game is a great way to help your child increase his speed and accuracy when solving integer problems.

This cause and effect activity brings the fun of card games and comprehension practice together in an innovative way!

In this experiment, your middle schooler will chart the effects of oil on a feather in order to grasp the tragic effects of oil spills on wildlife.

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Experiment with the wonders of pressure and condensation by crushing a soda can with nothing but air and water!

Take the plunge into handcrafting with this neat and tidy soap recipe. Here's how to create your own personalized soap.

Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!

Why are some pennies shiny and others dark and dull? Find out with this cleaning copper coins experiment, which transforms dark pennies to bright ones.

This activity is a great introduction to polymer chemistry. It might seem complicated, but all you'll need is the material found inside of a baby's diaper!

A science scavenger hunt can be a fun way to learn about science. Test your child's knowledge of scientific terms with this science scavenger hunt.

Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.

One of the most beautiful parts of every cathedral is the stained glass window above the entrance, called a Rose window. Your child can create his own!

This activity helps your teen write his very own adventurous epic poem, featuring an imagined hero.

Here's a painting activity that's a lesson in secondary colors. Your child will mix and match paints to discover all the different hues one color can have!

Got a young scientist at home? Try this project with him!Create your own molecule design with this home-made clay recipe and some toothpicks!

This exploration of different types of energy will help young minds appreciate and observe thermal, kinetic, mechanical, and other forms of energy.

This potato cannon activity teaches your middle schooler about the principle of Boyle's Law. Make a potato cannon and have a blast learning about science.

Does your child know that salt water conducts electricity? This simple experiment will show how salt water acts as a conductor to electrical currents.

Help your teen delve into the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; he'll come up with catchy slogans to advertise them in a pretend travel brochure.