1st - 7th Grade Activities : Page 8

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a model roller coaster that a marble can travel through.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

What's the relationship between temperature, air humidity and static electricity? Kids will find out with this free static electricity science fair project.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Show your fifth grader how to create a vivid and colorful, Picasso-inspired, 3-D mask.

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

Confetti wands add some colorful cheer to your New Year's Eve celebration. Wave these confetti wands at midnight and watch the colors fly.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.