3rd - 7th Grade Activities : Page 8

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Learn the basic structure of a DNA strand, which is the double helix, how genes form together, and the resemblance DNA has to a twisted ladder. Create a model.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

What causes the seasons to change? Kids find out by modeling the earth's tilt using a globe, flashlight and graph paper in this cool science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

Create a tornado vortex in your kitchen in this 5th grade science experiment. All you need are two plastic bottles, duct tape, and a metal washer to begin.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

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

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This science fair project explains the process of how the lungs expand and contract with the help of the diaphragm.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Discover that the absorbency of fabrics depend largely on the shape and structure of the individual fibers that make up the fabric.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

This is a fantastic and easy science experiment where kids will learn about elasticity by testing how high bouncy balls of different materials can bounce.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Kids make a paperclip perform an act of magnetic levitation and test how effective various materials are at magnetic shielding in this science fair project.

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

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.