4th - 8th Grade Activities : Page 48

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

Master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through practice in this fun math game designed for fourth grade!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

Get your kids involved in the kitchen by making crepes with your choice of toppings in this fun fourth grade cooking activity.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

This easy indoor activity teaches kids how to mix kitchen ingredients into watercolor paints, while giving a crash course in color-combining.

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

What is mulch? Kids will provide soil with a wet blanket of mulch and see if that helps keep drought-stricken soil damp.

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This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.

Made to humorously resemble reindeer droppings, these simple to make and yummy to eat holiday desserts are destined to become a family favorite.

Surprise your favorite bookworm this Halloween with a witchy bookmark!

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

Science fair project that determines whether tapping a pomegranate with a spoon helps it release its seeds.

Does dough rise faster with unbleached or bleached flour? Investigate in this science fair project idea.

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.