5th and 6th Grade Activities : Page 6

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This science fair project idea determines the most effective method of preserving food.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

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

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Create a DIY Electromagnet! Using a 9v battery to create an electrical field around a nail, students explore electromagnetism in this cool science project idea.

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

This science fair project idea explores which fruit molds the fastest.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

This science fair project idea researches the different layers of the atmosphere and creates a visual representation of the atmospheric layers.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

This science fair project idea investigates how color affects temperature.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Watch your fifth grader hone his basic kitchen and measuring skills as he helps you whip up a batch of this soothing, savory soup.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Will potatoes spud or sprout faster in dry, dark, or cold conditions? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Is there a relationship between caffeine and heart rate? Students will determine the effect of caffeine on heart rate in this fun science fair project.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.