4th and 5th Grade Activities : Page 48

Create tasty and healthy bruschetta the whole family will love and get your child in the kitchen involved in making the food they eat!

This science fair project idea examines the distance a person travels on an average day and to relate that to an understanding of the size of the Earth.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

To help your child shake the big number blues, here's a handy strategy to make your child a place value pro!

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

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

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

Your fourth-grader can hone her baking skills with this classic American recipe the whole family will enjoy!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Let your fifth grader get in touch with this inner chef by making these delicious no-bake nanaimo bars--named after a city in Canada.

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

Here's a sweet holiday recipe to make with your fifth grader: bake scrumptious sugar-dusted chocolate snowballs! Serve them at your next Christmas party.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

This zombie cake will give your Halloween enthusiast an excuse to lurch and limp around the kitchen. Share this zombie cake with friends and the undead.

Whip up an extra special treat for your hungry chef with these simple and creative brownie waffles!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

If your fourth grader is obsessed with all things glow-in-the-dark, then here's an activity that will really light up her imagination!

Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.

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

Encourage your fourth grader to develop their critical thinking and critical writing skills with this Critics' Choice movie booklet for your family.

Explore history and prepare for backyard battle with this samurai helmet craft.

This tried-and-true complexion treatment is a slumber-party staple that many people swear by.

In this fun art exercise, kids practice seeing multiple shapes and colors inside a water-filled glass and recreate them as a still life using colored paper.

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.