4th - 8th Grade Activities : Page 6

Kids get step-by-step instructions for how to make a rubber band car and explore the physics of potential energy with this fun engineering science fair project.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.

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

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!

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.

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.

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!