4th Grade Activities : Page 5

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

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

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

Focus on tasty savory dishes instead of sweet treats this Valentine's Day: make Caprese salad with heart-shaped mozzarella.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.