5th Grade Physical Science Learning Resources

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Believe it or not, the common spud has enough electrochemical energy to power a small digital clock. Show your sixth grader how!

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Check out this mind-blowing experiment in which a hard-boiled egg will fit through an impossibly small opening with the help of only a few matches!

Turn the common time killer of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

By using static electricity generated from their body, a child can cause a small fluorescent lamp bulb to light up!

Learn with makes water molecules work with this fun and easy science activity!

Conduct a simple science experiment to see if flowers from your garden pass the acid-base indicator test with this exciting chemistry activity.

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

Every time a sound is produced it emits a sound wave. This experiment demonstrates how sound travels, using nothing more than a spoon and a string!

Help your child understand surface tension by showing her how she can create a "skin" on top of water.

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.