3rd - 5th Grade Science Activities : Page 24

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

Show your child how to concoct a simple duo of household ingredients that changes color as acids and bases are added!

This science research project challenges students to think of more effective lobster farming methods.

Ant behavior is closely related to light intensity. This free science fair project idea examines how fast ants dig when they are exposed to to light and dark.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Science fair project which measures the shadow cast by a meter stick at various times in order to predict the circumference of the earth.

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

This science fair project idea explores whether it is easier to balance on a narrow ledge or on a rope.

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Kids will make predictions about cricket behavior by conducting this fun and easy experiment which simulates different environments for crickets.

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Science fair project that uses muriatic acid to develop fingerprints that would otherwise be invisible.

In this science fair project you will make a model of a cell membrane using very simple material.

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

What is biodiversity? Kids will study different areas of their backyards to see which is the most diverse to learn about biodiversity and random sampling.

This science fair project idea explores alcoholic fermentation at work by making your own soda.

Science fair project that helps you better understand density by comparing the relative densities of cans of Coke and Diet Coke.

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

This science fair project idea explores whether a sundial is as accurate as an atomic clock when telling time.

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

Soil and energy don't go together, right? That would be as bizarre as a pairing of peanut butter and marshmallows! Well, actually...

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!