Elementary School Activities : Page 2

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

In this windmill model science project, you will build a windmill to learn about wheel-and-axle machines and how these simple machines are used to do work.

Kids learn about potential energy, and mechanical energy, and how to make power from water with one of our favorite renewable energy projects for kids.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

For this science fair project, kids will learn how to make a lemon battery. They can conduct this classic experiment using readily available materials.

In this fun science fair project idea, kids will experiment with various methods in order to discover the fastest way to cool a soda.

What cause the phases of the moon? Make a model to see how the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth cause the crescent, gibbous, quarter, full, and new moon.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

In this fun experiment, we'll find out how color affects heat absorption!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Science fair project that examines the different types of precipitation, evaluates the density of snow and calculates the ratio of snow-to-liquid.

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

Create your own version of an Aboriginal Australian dot painting in this fun activity!

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

This light bulb science project includes step-by-step instructions for testing the heat from different light bulbs.

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.