5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 2

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating a model roller coaster that a marble can travel through.

What is vegetative reproduction? Find out how you can clone plants and regrow cabbage from a stem in this cool experiment!

Get excited for St. Patrick's Day by making a Celtic knot.

This project will explore whether test subjects, deprived of points of reference, will, in attempting to walk a straight course, walk in circles.

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

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Learn about where colors come from and how light absorption works in this fun experiment! All you need is a flashlight, construction paper, and cellophane!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

This project examines Newton's First and Second Laws of Motion with a bicycle and water balloons.

In this fun experiment, we'll find out how color affects heat absorption!

This experiment investigates the relationship between the temperature of a candle and its burn rate.

Science fair project which identifies the most effective insulator that you could use to make a winter coat by comparing how well cloth and cotton trap heat.

This experiment explores the question of whether age and/or gender play a role in people's ability to remember dreams.

Science fair project the demonstrates Newton's Third Law using a milk carton filled with water.

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Create safe lightning for kids! They'll learn how to make lightning at home with this fun science fair project idea illustrating static charges and grounding.

This science fair project idea determines if the temperature of rubber effects how high it bounces.

Find out which type of sponge holds the most water.

In this fun science fair project idea learn about universal solvents and solutes and find out the solubility of several common liquid substances.

This experiment will evaluate if chewing gum affects students' test performance.

This experiment evaluates if a noisy environment makes it harder for test subjects to perform tasks that require hand-eye coordination.

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.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!