5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 3

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

Kids will love making sugar crystals in this sugar crystal science fair project which teaches important chemistry concepts like saturation and solubility.

What are the effects of colored light on plant growth? Explore plant behavior in this cool botany science fair project and learn about phototropism!

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

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

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.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

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

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

In this microwave plant experiment, find out whether microwave radiation will affect radish seed germination. Will it help or hinder the plants' growth?

Check out this fun and easy science fair project idea on germination of a seed and learn to identify exterior and interior parts of a bean seed.

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

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

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

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

In this science fair project, learn how to make gears and find out why they transmit torques in predictable ways.

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

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

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

Find out whether packaged seeds actually do expire in this new science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

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

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