4th - 6th Grade Activities

Will the shape of an ice cube impact how fast the ice melts?

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

In this science fair project, kids start a chemical reaction that will make a balloon inflate itself!

In this cool catalase and hydrogen peroxide experiment, kids put a potato in a jar of hydrogen peroxide to see how catalase acts as an enzyme.

Science fair project which determines whether plants are able to get enough nutrients from different types of garbage.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your child's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Check out this fun science fair project to make a vinegar and baking soda balloon and demonstrate how gas is created as a result of the chemical reaction.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

This middle school science fair project determines whether DNA is most easily extracted from under-ripe, ripe, or over-ripe strawberries.

In this activity, learners will discover how to make a basic water filtration system using common materials found around the house or outside.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a car that can be powered by a balloon!

In this design challenge, students will be tasked with creating a bouncy ball polymer!

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

This science fair project idea explores the different properties & interactions of sugar molecules.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Students pit the heat capacity of water against the heat capacity of oil while looking at the effects of dipole rotation in this cool science fair project idea.

Make your own recycling game that helps teach your child what can and should be recycled.

Kids learn about potential energy, and mechanical energy, and how to make power from water with one of our favorite renewable energy projects for kids.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

This science fair project investigates whether tapping the top or the side of the can will stop a vigorously-shaken can of soda from exploding.