5th Grade Activities : Page 10

Demonstrate how static electricity can cause an object to move. It also examines just how an object affected by static electricity will move.

Transform ordinary metal paper clips into wearable jewelry by adding beads and linking the clips together.

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

Try turning the evening ritual of asking about your kid's school day into a challenging game that consists of twenty questions.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Your fifth grader will love dreaming up special fortunes and embedding them in mouthwatering cupcakes for friends and family.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

How to test for acids and bases? In this activity you and your child can make your own indicator from red cabbage!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

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

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

Total alkalinity and pH personal care products are controlled to prevent skin irritation. Learn more about basic and acidic substances in this science project.

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

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

This science fair project idea investigates the ability of different whitening toothpastes to whiten teeth.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Science fair project in which you will attempt to throw a ball the greatest horizontal distance possible by using different angles.

Science fair project idea examines validity of mood ring predictions. Analyze accuracy of results, consider the impact of temperature

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!