5th Grade Activities : Page 4

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how color affects temperature.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

How do series and parallel circuits work, and which produces the brightest light in a light bulb? Construct both in this project and find out!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

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

Why do ants like sugar? Do ants like artificial sweeteners too? Kids find out with this great inquiry-based science fair project.

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

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.

Science fair project which teaches you about the principles of physics within a vacuum by creating a vacuum chamber.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

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

This science fair project idea creates a sedimentary rock and to investigate what takes place during the rock cycle.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.